Posts Tagged: Yad Vashem Holocaust
Israel’s Yad Vashem Opens New Conservation Center for Holocaust-Era Artifacts in Jerusalem
Yad Vashem, Israel's national memorial to the Holocaust, opened a new conservation facility in Jerusalem on Monday that will help house the museum's continuously expanding...
IDF General Staff Visits Yad Vashem for Day of Holocaust Education
JNS.org - The Israel Defense Forces General Staff held a study day dedicated to commemorating the Holocaust at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Monday. Israel marks Yom Hashoah, Holocaust...
Analyzing the Austrian Chancellor’s Visit to Israel
Far too little attention has been paid to the importance of Sebastian Kurz’s first visit as Austrian chancellor to Israel. This 31-year-old politician is the...
Yad Vashem Holocaust Seminar Helps Rwandans Commemorate Genocide
JNS.org - The International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem and Israel's Foreign Ministry held a seminar on the 1994 Rwanda genocide, whose anniversary took...
US Army Officer Among Non-Jewish Honorees at Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony in Washington for ‘Righteous Among the Nations’
Four gentiles who risked their lives to save Jews during WWII will be honored posthumously on Wednesday at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC. The ceremony, coinciding with...
Holocaust Journal and Improvised Haggadah Spurs Yad Vashem Search
JNS.org - The research team of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem is searching for information about the women named in a diary and...
Woman Sues Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum Over Oskar Schindler Documents
JNS.org - The Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem has been sued by a woman who claims ownership of a collection of documents that belonged...
BBC Airs Documentary on Jane Haining, ‘The Scot Who Died in Auschwitz’
BBC One Scotland on Sunday aired a documentary telling the story of a non-Jewish woman who died in the Auschwitz concentration camp and became the...
Honoring Liberators and Mahalniks Before It’s Too Late
It is no secret that the eyewitnesses to the Nazi death camps, the liberators from the U.S. and Allied Armies, are themselves quickly dying off. They...
Sheldon and Miriam Adelson to Donate $25 Million to Ariel University
JNS.org - U.S. businessman and philanthropist Sheldon Adelson, along with his wife Miriam, will donate $25 million to Israel's Ariel University located in Judea...
On Yom HaShoah, World Leaders Call for Combating of Anti-Semitism
JNS.org - On Yom HaShoah, Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, world leaders called for the combating of anti-Semitism. President Barack Obama said in a statement, "On this...
Israeli Museums to Look for Heirs of Nazi-Looted Art
JNS.org - Representatives of Israeli museums and the Company for Location and Restitution of Holocaust Victims' Assets decided Thursday to begin searching for the...
Federation Trip to Israel Biggest in 10 Years
More than 700 Jews from South Florida visited Israel through a trip sponsored by the local Jewish federation, the largest such trip in...
