10 October Assembly marking 64 years since the murder of Ukrainian Jews, in cooperation with the Association of Ukrainian Jews in Israel and the participation of hundreds of Ukrainian Holocaust survivors. Participants toured the new Museum and placed dozens of wreaths in the Hall of Remembrance. Speeches were made by Deputy Minister of Immigrant Absorption Marina Solodkin MK, Acting Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Alexander Khomiak, Jewish Agency Treasurer Shai Hermesh, Yad Vashem Council Chairman Prof. Szewach Weiss, and Chairman of the Association of Ukrainian Immigrants in Israel David Levine.

16 October Annual ceremony and assembly marking the deportation of Italian Jews, in cooperation with the Association of Italian Immigrants in Israel and the Italian Jewish Cultural Society. Participants toured the new Museum and gathered in the new Synagogue for a ceremonial presentation of the last letter written by Luigia Levi Mali, z”l, prior to her deportation to Auschwitz, as well as the suitcase of Guiseppe de Porto, inscribed with the various stops he made until his liberation. The event concluded with a memorial ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance in the presence of the Italian Ambassador to Israel H.E. Mr. Sandro De Bernardin.

27 October Memorial assembly for the Jews of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, in cooperation with the Jerusalem branch of the Association of Lithuanian Immigrants headed by David Hait. After a memorial ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, participants heard speeches by Hall of Names Director Alexander Avraham and Chairman of the Association of Lithuanian Immigrants in Israel Yosef Melamed.

7 November Memorial ceremony and general assembly of the Association to Memorialize the Victims of Landsberg-Kaufering-Dachau. Participants toured the new Museum, heard a lecture on the camps by Sari Dauber, and viewed a photo exhibit from a tour of the campsite by members of the Association and the second generation. At the ceremony, Executive Assistant to the Chairman Irena Steinfeldt welcomed the participants and presented a copy of the Museum album to the Mayor Gauting (Germany).

8 November Memorial ceremony and general assembly of the Alumim Association–children who lived under assumed identities in France during WWII. After a ceremony in the French courtyard of the Valley of the Communities, the 150 participants heard a brief lecture about the late Simon Wiesenthal, as well as a lecture on underground member Andrée Salomon.

9 November Annual memorial ceremony marking 67 years since the Kristallnacht pogrom with the Association of Central European Immigrants. The 250 participants toured the new Museum and heard a lecture entitled “From Humiliation to Genocide” by Prof. Walter Zwi Bacharach. A memorial ceremony was held in the Hall of Remembrance.

17 November Memorial ceremony marking 63 years since the liquidation of the Czestochowa and neighboring communities at Beit Hachayal in Tel Aviv. Some 150 members of the Association of Immigrants from Czestochowa and the second generation participated in the event. Speakers included Association Chairman Arieh Edelist, Adv., philanthropist Sigmund Rolat, Director of the School of Fine Arts in Czestochowa Dr. Anna Maciejowska, and Prof. Szewach Weiss, who lectured on the topic of “Poland - Challenges in the Shadow of the Past.” Performers in the artistic program included Ramat Gan’s Gogol Children’s Harmonica Ensemble and singer Shuli Natan.

29 December Buchman Memorial Prize ceremony 2005: the prize was awarded to author Alona Frankel for her book Girl, and to historian Dr. Michal Unger for her book Lodz – The Last Ghetto in Poland, in the presence of Avner Shalev, Prof. David Bankier, Prof. Dan Michman, Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem Prof. Israel Gutman, Professor Dan Laor (Tel Aviv University), and Buchman Memorial Foundation representative Rosine Bron.
 

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