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A Wake-up Call |
In February 2006, the David and Fela Shapell Family Shoah and Heroism
Study Center for Youth was launched at Yad Vashem’s International School
of Holocaust Studies. The Center will offer intense, full-day seminars to
some 10,000 Israeli 11th graders annually, as well as to Jewish students
from abroad participating in the ‘March of the Living’ and ‘birthright’
programs. Through the study of Jewish heroism—both spiritual and
physical—during the Shoah, the Center presents the Holocaust not merely as
an historical episode but rather as an event that challenges students to
strengthen their commitment to universal values, to the Jewish people and
to Jewish continuity. |
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