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Now More Than Ever
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Education
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Holocaust Education: Directions and Challenges
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Building Bridges of Understanding
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Activities in Europe
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New on the
International School’s website
Educators’ Conference
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“Remember the
Days of Old”
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The Names Database:
“I waited 65 years to give her a kiss”
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Facing the
Future of Holocaust Remembrance
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The American Society
for Yad Vashem 25: Years of
Dedication to Holocaust Remembrance
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Eli Zborowski: A
Life Mission
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Gaining
Another Perspective: The Yad Vashem Delegation to Poland, 2006
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New
Publications
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News
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Joseph (Tommy)
Lapid Appointed Chairman of the Council
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New Shoah-Related
Lists Database Now Online
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New on the Web
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Events June –
September 2006
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New Display:
Drawings of the Trial of Klaus Barbie, “The Butcher of Lyon”
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News from the
Research Institute
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The Last
Survivor of Chelmno
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Annotator of
the Lodz Ghetto Chronicle
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Recent
Visits to Yad Vashem
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Friends Worldwide
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About the Magazine
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Credits
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Back Issues
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Arie Ben-Menachem (Prinz) was born in Lodz in 1922. During the war, he
befriended the photographer-artist Mendel Grossman, whom he assisted in
his clandestine efforts to document life in the Lodz ghetto. They
photographed scenes of daily life—people at work in the “resorts”
(factories), hungry children, the abuse, the executions and the
deportations—and Arie used some of the images to create a unique personal
18-page album.
When the ghetto was liquidated, Arie ended up in concentration camps in
Poland and Germany, and his album was smuggled away. Although he was
unable to determine the fate of the original album, copies of the
individual sheets, published in various books, reached him after the war,
and he managed to reconstruct the entire work.
Arie fought in Israel’s War of Independence and then settled with his
family in Israel. His extensive personal library contained thousands of
books on the Holocaust in general, and on the Lodz ghetto in particular.
He was always willing to share his library and his vast personal knowledge
with researchers and students. With his friend Yosef Rav, he translated
and annotated the Lodz Ghetto Chronicle (Yad Vashem, 1986-1989), a unique
and highly important research source. He also helped prepare a book on the
Righteous Among the Nations in Poland.
On 19 July 2006, Arie Ben-Menachem was buried in Israel. He is mourned by
his family and his many friends and admirers. May his memory be blessed.
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