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Holocaust
Education
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Some 190,000 pupils from
Israel and
abroad and more than 108,200 soldiers and officers of the
IDF and other Israeli security forces participated in
seminars at the International School for Holocaust Studies
and at the School’s branch in Givatayim (Beit Wolyn). Some
10,000 Israeli students made use of the School’s mobile
unit programs.
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Some 17,000 Israeli
educators attended teacher-training days at Yad Vashem and
nationwide. 64 seminars
were conducted for 1,900
participants in a yearlong course given by the School. The
National Teachers’ Conference was held at Yad Vashem in
June 2007, with the participation of over 300 educators
from across
Israel.
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48 seminars for more than 1,400 non-Jewish educators from
abroad
were
conducted at Yad Vashem. Several of the seminars were for
clergy, among them participants from Poland, Germany and
England. An additional 42 seminars were held for educators
across the world.
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9 seminars were conducted for Jewish educators from abroad
in 6 languages including one each in French, Italian,
Russian, Hungarian and Spanish, and the remainder in
English. A workshop preparing survivors to give testimony
before audiences, as well as 78 teacher-training days for
Jewish educators from around the world, with a total of
over 2,000 participants, were held at the
International School.
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School
staff worked in 22 different countries around the globe in
2007. 13 nations took part in the first-ever seminar for
United Nations Information Officers, organized by Yad
Vashem in cooperation with the UN. Yad Vashem, in
cooperation with OSCE and ODIHR, launched a guide for
teachers on addressing antisemitism in educational
settings.
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More than 2,700 teachers
across the
US received training as part of “Echoes
and Reflections,” a joint project of Yad Vashem, the ADL
and USC Shoah Foundation Institute. Close to 4,700
educators and community leaders have been trained since
the inception of the program.
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Some 900,000 visitors from 20 different countries visited
the School’s interactive virtual school. An extensive
range of educational material, in 16 different languages,
was uploaded to the website, including 3 video
conferences, 18 survivor testimonies, 13 online courses in
4 languages, a lexicon of Holocaust concepts in 4
languages, educational units, lesson plans, online
community forums, interactive maps and sub-sites for
special events in a variety of languages.
Research
and Publications
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The
International Institute for Holocaust Research held 3
international conferences, 11 research workshops, 3
international workshops and one seminar as well as the
annual lecture of The John Najmann Chair of Holocaust
Studies.
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7 senior
researchers from Israel and abroad were hosted at Yad
Vashem, assisted by fellowship grants by the Research
Institute, which also granted 17 awards to masters and
doctoral students and the Danek Gertner Yad Vashem PhD
Scholarship.
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38 new
books were published by Yad Vashem, including 7 new
memoirs in Hebrew and 6 in English, research studies,
Yad Vashem Studies and translations of books into
various languages. The Auschwitz Album was
translated into Spanish and Italian, and the Yad Vashem
Museum Album To Bear Witness
was
translated into Russian and Turkish.
11 titles were reprinted in English, Hebrew, and German
versions. Yad Vashem Studies, which until now was
released once a year, is now published twice yearly, in
both Hebrew and English. 7 books, in a variety of
languages, were published in cooperation with other
publishing houses.
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Rutka’s
Notebook,
published this year in Hebrew and English, generated
worldwide attention and inquiries about republishing came
from around the world. Time, Inc., in conjunction with Yad
Vashem, will be publishing a new edition in April 2008.
Art
works and Artifacts
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886
artifacts and 129 works of art were added to Yad Vashem’s
collection. The artifacts collection now holds some 22,000
items and the art collection comprises over 12,000 pieces.
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exhibitions were held at Yad Vashem: “Samuel Bak: An
Arduous Journey” and “Spots of Light: To Be a Woman in the
Holocaust” in the Exhibitions Pavilion, and “BESA:
A Code of Honor – Muslim Albanians who Rescued Jews During
the Holocaust,”
by American photographer
Norman Gershman,
in the foyer of Yad Vashem’s main auditorium.
Righteous Among the Nations
Events, Ceremonies
and Public Relations
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In 2007, over one million people visited Yad Vashem.
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In addition to the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremonies,
the Commemoration and Public Relations Division held some
90 events and
277
memorial services. Some 65,000 visitors came as guests of
Yad Vashem on 3,750 guided tours.
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Some 7 million visits from 215 countries were recorded
visiting the Yad Vashem website, a rise of 54% from the
previous year.
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A mini-site in Farsi came online in January 2007 and
received about 90,000 visits during the year, including
over 22,500 from
Iran.
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For the second year running, the Yad Vashem website won
the People and Computers Magazine WebiAward in the Special
Category for outstanding websites.
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International recognition came this year from
France and Spain.Yad Vashem was honored with the
prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for Concord in
Oviedo, Spain, and the French Legion of Honor was bestowed
upon Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev for his
extraordinary work on behalf of Holocaust remembrance
worldwide.
Documentation,
Photographs, Names, Testimonies, Publications and Films
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5.5 million pages of Holocaust-era documentation were
gathered by Yad Vashem. To date, Yad Vashem’s Archive
contains some 74 million pages of documentation.
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Over 446,000 names records of survivors, victims and
others, from archival lists and other documentation, were
digitized.
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Close to 52,000 new Pages of Testimony were added to the
Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, including most
of the 44,740 Pages in Russian gathered since the
beginning of the Names Recovery campaign in the
Russian-speaking sector that was launched in May 2006. The
Names Database now contains over 2.1 million Pages of
Testimony, about two thirds of the total number of names
in the Database. The Central Database of Shoah Victims’
Names now contains more than 3.3 million names of
Holocaust victims, all of which are accessible online.
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Over 3,000 photographs were added to the Photo and Film
Archives, and 5,400 to the Hall of Names. Yad Vashem
currently houses more than 350,000 photographs, including
over 127,000 photographs attached to Pages of Testimony.
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Over 1,000 new Holocaust survivor testimonies were filmed
and recorded by the Oral History Section, Archives
Division. The Archives currently house some 46,000 video,
audio, and written testimonies.
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Some 3,900 book titles were acquired by the Yad Vashem
library. To date, the library holds over 115,000 titles in
54 languages.
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26,000 public inquiries were answered by the Reference and
Information Services Department. Of these inquiries, over
12,000 members of the public were assisted in the Library
and Archives Reading Room, and some 14,000 were written
queries.
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The
Visual Center acquired 700 films, including
classics from the past and new films. 4,100 films,
produced from 1945 until today, from a variety of genres,
were catalogued. Currently over half of these titles are
available for viewing at the Visual Center.
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Over 60 groups, including teachers, students and
filmmakers visited the
Visual
Center for activities and varied programs including
lectures on cinema and the Holocaust.
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The Visual Center awarded the second annual “Avner Shalev
Yad Vashem Chairman’s Award for Artistic Achievement in
Holocaust-Related Film” at the International Film Festival
in Jerusalem to Director Michelle Ohayon for Steal a
Pencil for Me (2007).
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