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• Honoring the Righteous
• How to Apply
• Program History
• The Commission
Yad Vashem was established to perpetuate the memory of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. An additional stipulation in the law required Yad Vashem to commemorate "the Righteous Among the Nations who risked their lives to save Jews."
" In those times there was darkness everywhere. In heaven and on earth, all the gates of compassion seemed to have been closed. The killer killed and the Jews died and the outside world adopted an attitude either of complicity or of indifference. Only a few had the courage to care. These few men and women were vulnerable, afraid, helpless - what made them different from their fellow citizens?… Why were there so few?… Let us remember: What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander…. Let us not forget, after all, there is always a moment when moral choice is made…. And so we must know these good people who helped Jews during the Holocaust. We must learn from them, and in gratitude and hope, we must remember them. "
Elie Wiesel
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