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New Center to
Support Student Visits to Yad Vashem
In an effort to ensure that every Israeli high school student visits
Yad Vashem as part of their study of the Holocaust, the
International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem is
implementing a new project, “Youth Studying the Shoah” at the
initiation of the David and Fela Shapell Family Foundation. The
newly established David and Fela Shapell Family Shoah and Heroism
Study Center for Youth will facilitate Holocaust study for
thousands of young people from Israel and abroad.
The Center will enable intense, full-day seminars for some ten
thousand Israeli 11th graders annually as well as to Jewish students
from abroad participating in the “March of the Living” and
“birthright israel” programs. Through the study of Jewish heroism --
both spiritual and physical -- during the Shoah, the Center presents
the Holocaust not merely as an historical episode to be taught but
rather as an event that challenges students to strengthen their
commitment to universal values, to the Jewish people and to Jewish
continuity.
The Center will make it possible for students from the periphery in
Israel to complement their Holocaust studies with seminars at Yad
Vashem. Thus far 32 cities have been chosen for the Youth Studying
Shoah project, based on socio-economic criteria, as well as their
distance from Jerusalem. Among the cities that will participate in
the project are Be’er Sheva, Arad, Ofakim, Dimona, Ohr Yehuda,
Kiryat Yam, Zarzir, Zfat and others.
Visits to Yad Vashem are an integral part of Israeli students’
education. The project’s goal is to ensure that everyone is able to
participate regardless of financial considerations.
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