Yad Vashem Jerusalem - Quarterly Magazine

Contents

► Editors' Remarks
► Committed to Memory
UN Declares International Holocaust Remembrance Day
► The New Museum:
Behind the Scenes
A Family Connection
► Art Focus
New Exhibition: Montparnasse Déporté
► Education
   ► Global Teaching; Dynamic
        Learning
   ► Seminar for Survivors of
        the Rwandan Genocide
   ► Focusing on Europe
► The Names Database:
     A Year Online
► A Gift of Color
► News
► New Publications
► Friends Worldwide

► About the Magazine
► Credits

► Back Issues

► Contact Us

January 2006 marks a new level in Holocaust remembrance: for the first time, the United Nations has passed a resolution calling for worldwide commemoration and education about the Holocaust, hilighted by an International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January. This occasion is being marked in the UN by a commemorative event and the display of a Yad Vashem exhibition; in Israel, Yad Vashem is organizing a range of events (see “Committed to Memory“). Yad Vashem has always stressed the importance of education, and our efforts in Europe especially continue to expand with the opening of the Virtual School for Holocaust Studies (see “Global Teaching; Dynamic Learning”).

Other aspects of international remembrance are also highlighted in this issue: opening this month is a new exhibition, focusing on the art—and fate—of L’Ecole de Paris (see “Montparnasse Déporté”); a recent seminar was held in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies for survivors of the Rwandan genocide to learn how to deal with the enormity of their tragedy (see “Shaping Remembrance”); and we review the first year of the online Names Database, which undoubtedly has taken awareness of the Shoah and its victims to a universal plane (see “The Names Database: A Year Online” ).

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Yad Vashem Jerusalem, Quarterly Magazine, Vol. 40, Winter 2006

Rudolf Levy
(Stettin 1875-Auschwitz 1944),
Interior, 1942, gouache on paper
Gift of Mrs. Rosina Bryk, Florence


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