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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
Publications
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News
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Dedication of New
Entrance Plaza
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Opening of Arolsen Archives
►Video
Testimony Resource Center
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Vashem Website Wins Award
►Yad
Vashem wins "Roaring Lion" 2006 PR Award
►Yad
Vashem Supports Name Change for Auschwitz
►Claims
Conference Approves Additional Support for Yad Vashem
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Yad Vashem welcomed the decision in May by the 11-nation International
Commission for the International Tracing Service (ITS) to open the
archives at Bad Arolsen in Germany. According to experts at Yad Vashem,
the decision will give the public and researchers access for the first
time to some 50 million WWII-era files containing new information on
forced labor and concentration camps, as well as names of Holocaust
victims added to the archives since Yad Vashem received 20 million pages
in the early 1960s, including most of those relating to Jews.
In order to organize the way the archives are accessed, the committee
established a working group of high-level archival and technical experts,
including a Yad Vashem representative. The working group will study and
compile a report on the archives, including a list of collections already
digitized; develop rules for accessing documents; and make recommendations
regarding the prioritization and processing of future digitization.
“This is an important step in the process of opening wartime archives in
Europe,” noted Chairman of the Directorate Avner Shalev. “Yad Vashem’s
knowledge and expertise in digitizing archival information and presenting
it to the general public will certainly contribute greatly to the
committee’s work.” Shalev also thanked the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum for its efforts in opening the archive, as well as the
Israel Foreign Ministry, which was instrumental in bringing part of the
archive to Yad Vashem in the 1950s.
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