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President Bush Receives Replica of Biblical Illustrations from Yad
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On January 11, 2008, US President George
W. Bush, on a brief 48-hour trip to Israel, made time for a visit of
almost two hours at Yad Vashem. Joining him were US Secretary of State
Condoleeza Rice, Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Israel President
Shimon Peres and Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council Joseph (Tommy)
Lapid. During his visit to Yad Vashem, the President, guided by Yad
Vashem Chairman of the Directorate Avner Shalev, visited the Holocaust
History Museum, the Museum of Holocaust Art, participated in a
wreath-laying ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance and visited the
Children’s Memorial. View the visit live
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At the conclusion of his visit, Shalev
presented President Bush with a special gift, a replica of biblical
illustrations, the original of which is on display in the Museum of
Holocaust Art. Recently Yad Vashem, with the generous support of
Mikhail Bezelianski, decided to produce a special, numbered series
of this special portfolio, limited to 500 copies, the first of which
was presented to the President. Jewish artist Carol Deutsch created
the works while in hiding in Belgium. After he was informed upon, he
was deported and died in 1944 in Buchenwald, leaving behind 99 vividly
colored prints in an illustrated wooden box, which he bequeathed to
his daughter Ingrid. To find out about the unique gift President Bush
received from Yad Vashem and how to acquire your own copy,
click here. |
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First Ever International
Youth Congress on the Holocaust
“A Life Changing-Experience,” Venezuelan
Youth Delegate
Over 100 young people from 62 countries and five
continents recently gathered at Yad Vashem’s International School for
Holocaust Studies, for a three-day
Youth Congress. The Congress, under
the patronage of UNESCO, was devoted to the study of the Holocaust and
discussions of its universal significance. Participants, ranging in
age from 17 to 19, and including among them Christians, Jews, Muslims
and Buddhists, and speaking some 30 different languages, studied
various Holocaust-related topics, toured Yad Vashem and Jerusalem,
participated in workshops, and met with Holocaust survivors. Special
sessions were held with Israeli dignitaries including President Shimon
Peres. |
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Spotlight on the Web |
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Yad Vashem Launches Arabic
Website
On January 24, 2008, Yad Vashem
launched a new
website about the Holocaust in Arabic. The
website includes the historical
narrative of the Holocaust, concepts from the Holocaust, academic
articles, artifacts, maps, photos, archival documents and an online video
testimony resource center all translated into Arabic, as well as a special
multimedia presentation of the Auschwitz Album, with Arabic narration,
stories of Righteous Among the Nations- including Muslims from Turkey and
Albania- and the movie We Were There, which documents a joint visit of
Arabs and Jews to Auschwitz. The website was made possible through the
generous support of Stuart and Ilene Golvin of Toronto, Canada, children
of late Holocaust survivor Stanley Golvin, and may be accessed from
www.yadvashem.org.
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Names Recovery |
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Shoah Victims’ Names
Recovery Project – International Efforts Continue
Yad Vashem’s Shoah Victims’ Names Recovery
Project invites you to make use of a variety of
new online resources
designed to enhance your outreach efforts.
Pages of Testimony Tutorial Video
We have created a 10-minute
video to demonstrate how to help survivors
and others from their generation to fill out Pages of Testimony and
memorialize Jews they know of who perished in the Holocaust. The video
presents a volunteer visiting with two women in their homes to assist
them in recalling and recording the names of Shoah victims on Pages of
Testimony. The video is ideal for screening at volunteer training
sessions or to provide tips and insight for individuals wishing to
embark on this project. |
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Recent Events |
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Yad Vashem Exhibits Around
the World
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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At UN Headquarters in NY, Yad
Vashem’s exhibition “Besa: A Code of Honor-Muslim Albanians who
Rescued Jews During the Holocaust,” by American photographer Norman
Gershman, opened on January 29, at the UN Visitor’s Lobby and will
remain on display until March 2, 2008. The Yad Vashem exhibition
“Auschwitz: The Depth of the Abyss” opened on January 28, 2008 at the
UNESCO Building in Paris, in the presence of UNECSO
Director General Koïchiro Matsuura. On January 25, the Yad Vashem
exhibition “An Arduous Road: Samuel Bak—60 Years of Creativity” opened
at the parliament building of the District of Thuringia, in the city
of Erfurt, Germany. The exhibition, a retrospective of the work
of artist and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak, opened two weeks prior at
the municipal building of the city of Landsberg, Germany.
Events and exhibitions also took place in Stuttgart, Germany,
Austria, Liechtenstein and Slovenia.
For more information about the other worldwide Yad Vashem events
marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day,
click here. |
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With Your Support... |
While the successful activities and programs
detailed above are notable, and merit celebration, the fact remains that
Yad Vashem requires additional support to ensure that it can continue to
pursue its important mission of commemoration and education. Now, we need
you to join us in our efforts to transform commemoration into a lasting
commitment to the Jewish people, to moral values and to responsible
action.
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Years Wherein We Have Seen Evil is a
series of educational books, developed by the International School for
Holocaust Studies, focusing on the story of religious Jewry during the
Holocaust. The fourth and final volume of the series was recently
published in Hebrew, with the English to follow. The series was developed
with the generous donation of Rudolph and Edith Tessler in memory of the
children of Shlomo and Esther Tessler and the children of David and Fradel
Hoffmann. |
Yad Vashem welcomes the ongoing partnership
and visits from its friends and supporters: |
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For more information on Friends of Yad Vashem please
click here
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Yad Vashem Quarterly Magazine |
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The Winter 2008 edition of Yad Vashem’s
Quarterly Magazine is now available online. The winter months were filled
with international recognition and prestigious awards for Yad Vashem’s and
its Chairman Avner Shalev, all highlighted in our Winter Magazine. Read
about the release and arrival of the ITS (International Tracing Service)
documents at Yad Vashem and how to access the information via an online
request. Events marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, recent
Yad Vashem publications, news and exhibitions complete the issue.
Read it
all here. |
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