Highlights of Yad Vashem’s Activity in 2002

Holocaust Education

73,000 students from Israel and abroad, 50,000 soldiers, and 4,000 college students participated in educational courses at the International School for Holocaust Studies.
20,000 Israeli students participated in the International School’s Nayedet (Mobile Programming Unit) programs.
2,600 educators from abroad participated in 24 Yad Vashem educational courses and seminars.
Approximately 32 teacher training seminars were held for Israeli educators.

Events, Ceremonies, and Public Relations

60 events (including Holocaust Remembrance Day) and 106 memorial services were conducted by the Commemoration and Public Relations Division.
383 official visitors received guided tours of the Yad Vashem site.
Approximately 80,000 people per month accessed Yad Vashem’s website.

Research and Publications

6 seminars, 13 academic gatherings, and 1 international conference were conducted and 18 prizes were awarded by the International Institute for Holocaust Research.
15,797 Yad Vashem publications were purchased by the public.

Documentation, Photographs, Testimonies, Names,

and Library Books

1,867,081 pages of Holocaust-era documentation were received by Yad Vashem. To date, Yad Vashem has received over 60 million pages of documentation.
14,200 new Pages of Testimony were submitted to the Hall of Names.
4,867 new photographs were added to the Photo Archives. Yad Vashem currently houses over 263,000 photographs.
613 new Holocaust survivor testimonies were recorded by the Oral History Section, Archives Division.
3,500 books were acquired by the Yad Vashem Library. To date the Library holds 88,000 titles.
360,000 names of Holocaust victims were digitized.
14,075 on-site searches were conducted by members of the public for names of Holocaust victims.

4,843 written inquiries (email, fax, and post) concerning the Archives and Library were answered by Reference and Information Services.

Artwork and Artifacts

613 artifacts and 188 artworks were added to Yad Vashem’s Museums Division collection. The artifacts collection now holds approximately 21,400 artifacts.

Righteous Among the Nations

565 individuals were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations. To date, 19,706 Righteous Among the Nations have been recognized by Yad Vashem.