Yad Vashem Magazine

Highlights of Yad Vashem’s Activity in 2003

Holocaust Education

78,000 pupils from Israel and abroad and 26,000 Israeli soldiers participated in educational courses at the International School for Holocaust Studies. Two workshops were held for survivors on giving testimonies.
22,700 Israeli students participated in the International School’s Nayedet (Mobile Unit) programs.
1,234 Israeli educators attended 33 teacher-training seminars across the country, and 390 educators from abroad participated in 14 seminars at Yad Vashem.
4,200 educators participated in training courses in 18 countries abroad, and 96 teachers completed 2 online courses.

Events, Ceremonies and Public Relations

70 events (including Holocaust Remembrance Day) and 173 memorial services were conducted by the Commemoration and Public Relations Division.
522 official visitors received guided tours of the Yad Vashem site.
Approximately 120,000 people per month accessed the Yad Vashem website.

Research and Publications

15 research workshops and seminars were conducted, 2 research chairs established and 1 international conference was held by the International Institute for Holocaust Research.
8 senior researches were hosted by the Research Institute, assisted by research fellowship grants. In addition, 15 awards to masters and doctoral students, 1 doctoral research scholarship and 2 research awards were granted by the Institute.
27 new books were published by Yad Vashem, including the first volume of the Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations and further volumes of The Comprehensive History of the Holocaust.

Documentation, Photographs, Testimonies, Names and Library Books

1,900,000 pages of Holocaust-era documentation were received by Yad Vashem. To date, Yad Vashem’s Archive contains over 62 million pages of documentation.
236,000 names from archival lists and documentation were added to the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names. Approaching 3 million names of Holocaust victims have been digitized so far.
15,000 new Pages of Testimony were submitted to the Hall of Names. The Yad Vashem database now contains over 2 million Pages of Testimony.
3,170 new photographs were added to the Photo Archives, and 1,452 photos to the Hall of Names. Yad Vashem currently houses over 267,500 photographs, including 100,000 attached to Pages of Testimony.
637 new Holocaust survivor testimonies were recorded by the Oral History Section, Archives Division. The Archives currently house over 40,000 video, audio and written testimonies.
3,600 book titles were acquired by the Yad Vashem library. To date, the library holds 90,000 titles in 50 languages.
10,100 on-site searches were conducted by members of the public for names of Holocaust victims. 53,000 online searches were made during experimental pilots of the Names Database during a genealogical conference, at the General Assembly (GA) and the Israel Business Forum.
23,000 public inquiries were answered by the Reference and Information Services.

Art works and Artifacts

677 artifacts and 212 works of art were added Yad Vashem’s Museums Division collection. The artifacts collection now holds over 22,000 items, and the art collection includes some 8,000 pieces.

Righteous Among the Nations

499 individuals were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations. To date, 20,205 individuals have been recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.

Contents

Until the Last Jew, Until the Last Name