Contents
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Editors' Remarks
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Committed to
Memory
UN Declares
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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The New Museum:
Behind the Scenes
A Family Connection
► Art
Focus
New Exhibition:
Montparnasse Déporté
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Education
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Global
Teaching; Dynamic
Learning
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Seminar for Survivors of
the Rwandan Genocide
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Focusing on
Europe
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The Names
Database:
A Year Online
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A Gift of
Color
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News
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Inauguration of the new
Visual Center
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Warsaw Ghetto Square
to
connect to new Museum
Complex
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Yad Vashem
wins four
prizes for technical
excellence
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Whoever Saves
One
Life…
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Events
October-
December 2005
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Children’s Art
from Czech
Republic
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Hungary honors
Yad Vashem
►Recent
Visits to
Yad Vashem
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Dr. Joseph
Kermish z”l
(1907-2005)
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New
Publications
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Friends
Worldwide
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About the Magazine
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Credits
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Back Issues
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Yad Vashem’s Information and Communications Systems Division has been
awarded four prizes in Israel’s “People and Computers Magazine annual IT
Awards 2005.”
In the Special Projects Category for Outstanding Achievements, Yad Vashem
won two awards: for the uploading of the Central Database of Shoah
Victims’ Names to the Internet; and for the establishment of the
Digitization Center. A third prize was awarded for the project to protect
information in the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names. Michael
Lieber, CIO of Yad Vashem’s Information and Communications Systems
Division, won the prize in the personal category of Outstanding Director
of Information Systems. The Division also took second place in the
“Champion of the Champions” competition for the total number of awards.
Lieber spoke of the “long distance traveled by Yad Vashem over the past
seven years,” during which it has vastly increased its server capacity,
established an advanced digital network that can absorb two to four
million new documents each year and, using state-of-the-art technology,
merged documents, testimonies and photographs for presentation in the new
Museum. “However, the Division’s flagship project was, without doubt, the
uploading of the Names’ Database to Yad Vashem’s website, for easy access
by users worldwide.”
Competition judges commented: “One of the challenges of fulfilling the
precept ‘to remember, and not to forget’ is the backup of historical
testimonies regarding the Holocaust of the Jewish people—both against
physical deterioration and against any other kind of damage. Preservation
of these testimonies has a further value: against the phenomenon of
Holocaust denial which is only increasing over the years.”
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