Yad Vashem Jerusalem - Quarterly Magazine

Contents

► A Wake-up Call
► The Human Spirit in the Shadow of Death
The Central Theme for Holocaust Remembrance Day 2006
► Torchlighters ‏2006
► The New Museum:
Behind the Scenes - For the Children
► 27 January 2006:
The World Marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day
► Education
   ► Strengthening Ties in Europe
   ► OSCE - Yad Vashem Guidelines launched in Belgium
   ► Teaching the Holocaust to Future Generations
   ► Events at The International School for Holocaust Studies
► Carrying the Torch of Remembrance
► The Names Database
Lost and Found
► News
   ► Highlights of Yad Vashem’s Activities in 2005
   ► Home Away from Home
   ► First symposium on Cinema and the Holocaust this May
   ► Events January – March 2006
   ► International School Launches New Educational Center
   ► Now on the Web
   ► Triumph Over Adversity
   ► The New Museum: Visitor Information
   ► RECENT VISITS TO YAD VASHEM
► New Publications
► Friends Worldwide

► About the Magazine
► Credits

► Back Issues

► Contact Us

In light of the great interest surrounding the choice by television personality Oprah Winfrey to include Elie Wiesel’s book, Night in her book club, Yad Vashem launched a mini-site devoted to the book and its author. The mini-site provides surfers with a wealth of material to enrich their reading of the book, including the Auschwitz Album; links to relevant information about the Holocaust; educational material produced by the International School for Holocaust Studies; and video clips of survivors’ testimonies related to events described in Wiesel’s book. In addition, users can access speeches by Elie Wiesel at the opening ceremony of the new Museum in March 2005, at the International Educators’ Conference at Yad Vashem in 2002, and at the event marking the uploading of the Names Database to the Internet in November 2004.

A new online exhibition, “With Sanctity and With Valour” highlights the lifestyles and religious practices of Orthodox Jewry in the years preceding, during and immediately following the Holocaust. It provides a rare glimpse into the world of those who displayed tremendous religious faith and belief, as well as their wartime experiences and ultimate fate.
The exhibition’s video testimony is taken from the educational unit, “Years Wherein We Have Seen Evil” produced by the International School for Holocaust Studies and developed with the generous donation of Rudolph and Edith Tessler. The unit focuses on the story of religious Jewry during the Holocaust within a general historical and broader Jewish context.

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