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Yad Vashem (Hebrew: יָד וַשֵׁם; lit. ' a memorial and a name ') is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; echoing the stories of the survivors; honoring Jews who fought against their Nazi oppressors and gentiles who selflessly aided Jews in need; and researching the phenomenon of the Holocaust ...
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, since 1989, the "Every Person Has a Name" ceremony has taken place at Yad Vashem's Tent of Remembrance, the Knesset, and various locations across Israel and worldwide. During the ceremony, the names of victims documented by Yad Vashem over the years are read aloud by Knesset members, youth movement members, and ...
The growing awareness of additional categories of survivors has prompted a broadening of the definition of Holocaust survivors by institutions such as the Claims Conference, Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum so it can include flight survivors and others who were previously excluded from restitution and recognition, such ...
Alexander Avram leads a team at Yad Vashem that has amassed more than 2 million “Pages of Testimony” and historical documents in an effort to verify more identities. The project is known as ...
The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage, Mark Klempner, ISBN 0-8298-1699-2, The Pilgrim Press. Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust: Genocide and Moral Obligation, David P. Gushee, ISBN 1-55778-821-9, Paragon House Publishers. The Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. (volumes: Poland ...
That same year, a digitized database of Holocaust victims' names was created, and in 2004 the Central Database of Holocaust Victims' Names was launched on the Yad Vashem website. With the dedication of the new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem in 2005, the Hall of Names was moved to that location.
The Book of Names at Yad Vashem The Book of Names in Auschwitz. The Book of Names is a large-scale commemoration book, whose pages detail the names and short biographical information about approximately 4,800,000 Jewish victims of the Holocaust known to and documented by Yad Vashem, out of a total of 5.8 million victims.
“It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return to Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ...