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USA
Ernst Hacker
(right, with his wife, Bilha)
of Beverley Hills dedicated a classroom in the International
School for Holocaust Studies in memory of his first wife,
Menora (z”l).
At a moving ceremony attended by family and friends, Hacker also
unveiled a stone in the Memorial Cave in memory of his relatives
who perished in the Shoah.
In January, a Miami Jewish Federation group toured
the site of the new Holocaust History Museum. The group, headed by
Norman Braman
(right) was informed about the
project to upload the Central Database of Shoah Victims’
Names to the Internet, and participants were able to search for
names of relatives who perished in the Holocaust. They were also
given a presentation by Pedagogical Director of the International
School for Holocaust Studies Shulamit Imber
(left), and heard
about School programs and seminars.
Ariele Zandman Klausner
(back row, left, with her
daughter Jessica, front,
left, in the Family Plaza donated by her father, Felix
Zandman and his wife
Ruta), her husband Steven
Klausner
and family visited Yad Vashem with a group from their Philadelphia
congregation, Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El. Children and parents
toured separately, and then met for a memorial ceremony in the
Hall of Remembrance.
Linda and Hal Gottschall
toured Yad Vashem
with a group from Temple Israel of West Palm Beach, Florida. The
Gottschalls reaffirmed their continuing support of the
International School for Holocaust Studies’ educational outreach
programs.
UK
Chairman of the London College of
Music and President of the London Jewish Cultural Center Clive
Marks (right, with Director of the International Relations
Division Shaya Ben Yehuda), gave a presentation at Yad
Vashem on “Music and the Shoah”.
Marks is a board member of the National Yad Vashem
Charitable Trust, which has been incorporated into the
recently established Yad Vashem UK Foundation. A
Yad Vashem Forum, comprising all major UK
Holocaust-related organizations will act as a conduit between the
Forum’s individual members and Yad Vashem.
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Henry Grunwald
QC, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews
(left, with Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner
Shalev, right, and Director of the English Desk, International
Relations Division, Solly Kaplinski, center) led a January
visit of the Board to Yad Vashem. The tour included the No
Child’s Play exhibition, a memorial ceremony in the Hall of
Remembrance, the Children’s Memorial and a lecture by Head of the
International Institute of Holocaust Research Professor David
Bankier, who spoke on “Current Antisemitism—Lessons from the
Shoah.”
CANADA
Saul
and Toby Feldberg, Patrons of the Canadian Society for
Yad Vashem, toured the site of the new Holocaust History
Museum with Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev.
Buschie Kamin
of Toronto recently endowed the Documentation and Cataloguing
Center in the Archives and Library Building, a gift of the Jack
and Buschie Kamin Foundation.
AUSTRALIA
Olga Nowak
(third from left) was recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous
Among the Nations in a ceremony in Sydney. Present at the ceremony
were (left to right): President of the Sydney Jewish Museum
John Roth; President of the Australian Association of
Holocaust Survivors George Foster; Olga Nowak; Polish
Ambassador H.E. Mr. Jerzy Wieclaw; Israeli Ambassador H.E.
Mr. Gabi Levy; Righteous Among the Nations award recipient
Adrianus Vanas; Gandel Charitable Trust and Yad Vashem
representative Lisa Thurin; and Treasurer of the
Freundeskreis of Yad Vashem in Germany, Josef Grotte,
who was rescued by Nowak.
The Premier of Victoria, Steven
Bracks, views the Holocaust History Museum exhibit with
Ephraim Kaye, Director of Seminars for Educators from Abroad,
during a visit to Yad Vashem on June 15. (Photo by Isaac Harari)
MEXICO
Marcos
and Adela Katz
toured Yad Vashem and viewed some of the archive documents.
AUSTRIA
Yad
Vashem presented the first issue of its German magazine at a press
conference in Vienna in February. Speaking at the event were (left
to right): publisher Dr. Wilhelm Hopf;
Yad Vashem friend and supporter Fini Steindling;
Professor Dr. Wolfgang Neugebauer from the DOW (Archives
of the Austrian Resistance Movement); and Chairman of Austrian
Friends of Yad Vashem, Günther Schuster.
GERMANY
Director of the
German Desk, International Relations Division, Arik Rav-On,
(left), visited the Minister President of Sachsen Professor Georg Mildbradt (right) in Dresden in
October. The State of Sachsen is supporting the German audio-guide
for the new Holocaust History Museum.
FRANCE
On 2 March, 250 members of the Consistoire visited
Yad Vashem. The delegation represented the umbrella organization
of France’s Jewish communities, and was led by President of the
Consistoire Jean Kahn
(right, in the Valley of the Communities), Vice Presidents
Joel Mergui (center) and
Guy Toubiana, and heads of
France’s Jewish communities. Director of the French, Benelux and
Scandinavian Desk at Yad Vashem, Miry Gross
(left) accompanied the participants, who visited the Children’s
Memorial and held a wreath-laying ceremony in the Hall of
Remembrance. The group also heard a presentation about the
uploading to the Internet of the Central Database of Shoah
Victims’ Names and President Kahn committed to financial support of
the project.
ISRAEL
President and CEO of Ness Technologies
Raviv Zoller visited Yad Vashem on 7 December. During his visit,
Zoller heard about Yad Vashem’s plans to meet the challenges of
the 21st century, and was given a special preview of
the project to digitize Yad Vashem’s information databases.
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