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The Pope’s Visit to Auschwitz
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Willing Accomplices?
German Banks in Poland
During the Holocaust
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Education
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How Do You Teach Children About the
Holocaust?
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New online course in English
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Activities in Europe
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Teaching the Holocaust: The Fifth
International Educators’ Conference
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Memory
in Motion:
The Holocaust,
Memory and Videodance
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“Alone in the Drawer”
New campaign to videotape survivors’
testimony in their own homes
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The Names Database
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They Risked Their Lives…
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New Exhibition:
Charlotte Salomon: “Life? Or Theater?”
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New
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News
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Dedication of New
Entrance Plaza
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Opening of Arolsen Archives
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Testimony Resource Center
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Vashem Website Wins Award
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Vashem Supports Name Change for Auschwitz
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Conference Approves Additional Support for Yad Vashem
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By Arie Zuckerman
The Claims Conference has two main goals in disbursing the Holocaust
victim funds under its administration: assisting needy Holocaust survivors
(the use to which most of the finances are put), and ensuring that the
Holocaust—and those who were murdered—is memorialized.
Yad Vashem, as the Jewish center for perpetuating the memory of the
Holocaust, is the Claims Conference’s loyal ally in its efforts to attain
the second of these goals. The Conference has supported and taken part in
Yad Vashem’s major endeavors for over five decades, including the
uploading of the Names Database onto the Internet, and the computerization
of Yad Vashem’s Archives. During the early 1990s, the Claims Conference
was the main supporter of Yad Vashem’s development program, and committed
itself to funding a third of its budget. With the development program’s
expansion, the budget grew and, following renewed global interest in the
Holocaust after the opening of the new Museum Complex, the Claims
Conference recently approved additional large-scale funding for the
program.
Over one and a half million people have so far visited the new Museum and
more than eight million have visited the site of the online Names
Database. Yad Vashem attaches great importance to its strategic and
steadfast partnership with the Claims Conference and, along with the
Conference, will continue forging ahead in its quest to fulfill the last
wishes of those murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices: “Remember us
and never forget us.”
The author is Special Advisor to the Chairman of the
Directorate.
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Left to right: President of the Claims Conference Dr.
Israel Singer, Chairman Julius Berman, Executive Vice-President Emeritus
Saul Kagan, Executive Director Gideon Taylor, Executive Committee Chairman
Moshe Sanbar and Treasurer Roman Kent at Yad Vashem |
