Yad Vashem NewsLetter February
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New Exhibition – Flashes of Memory: Photography during the Holocaust |
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In January 2018, Yad Vashem inaugurated a new exhibition entitled “Flashes of Memory: Photography during the Holocaust.” The exhibition, housed in the Exhibitions Pavilion of Yad Vashem’s Museum Complex, presents a critical account of visual documentation – photographs and films – created during the Holocaust by German and Jewish photographers, as well as by members of the Allied forces during liberation. The exhibition focuses on the circumstances of the photograph and the worldview of the documenting photographer while emphasizing the unique viewpoint of the Jewish photographers as direct victims of the Holocaust. Displayed throughout this exhibition are some 1,500 photographs and 13 films, as well as original newspaper clippings, albums, diaries, and a number of original cameras from the period. Click here to view a promo for the exhibition. |
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Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel and Abroad |
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Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev participated in a special Israeli Government Cabinet meeting dedicated to Holocaust commemoration where he presented the attending ministers and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayhu with an overview of the current status of international Holocaust commemoration. Shalev’s appearance commenced the myriad commemorative activities in Israel and throughout the world through which Yad Vashem marked the UN-sanctioned International Day of Commemoration in Memory of Victims of the Holocaust. In addition, Yad Vashem hosted members of the international diplomatic community at its annual event, who were addressed by Israel’s President H.E. Mr. Reuven Rivlin and Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev. |
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Spotlight on the Web |
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Online Commemoration Activities |
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Yad Vashem uploaded a mini-site marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, featuring a variety of resources for the public to view, share and engage in, including online exhibitions, educational resources and the I Remember Wall. This annual social media campaign is a unique and meaningful opportunity for the public to participate in a commeorative activity to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. By joining the IRemember Wall, the participant’s Facebook profile is randomly linked to the name of a Holocaust victim from Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names. The IRemember Wall was promoted on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Some 8,000 people joined the IRemember Wall from 193 different countries. |
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New Online Exhibition – Last Letters from the Holocaust: 1943 |
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Over the decades, Yad Vashem has collected thousands of personal letters that reveal the hardships of Jews surviving day by day during the Holocaust. A selection of this correspondence is featured in the third in a series of online exhibitions about last letters sent during the Shoah: “‘I Left Everyone at Home’: Last Letters from 1943”. Tragically, many of the letters contain optimistic messages and hope for reunion. These online exhibitions provide rare documentation of the stories of Holocaust victims through their manuscripts, photos, Pages of Testimony that were filled out in their memory, and excerpts of testimony from family members who survived. |
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Names Recovery |
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Page of Testimony Leads to Miraculous Family Reunion |
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The last time 102-year-old Holocaust survivor Eliahu Pietruszka saw his family was in Warsaw. All these years he believed that his entire family had been murdered during the Holocaust. But in November 2017, Eliahu met for the first time with his newly discovered nephew Alexandre, the son of a brother who, unbeknownst to him, had also survived. The emotional meeting took place thanks to information on Pages of Testimony recorded on Yad Vashem’s online Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names. Alexandre was moved to tears when he saw a prewar family photograph, saying that it was the first time that he had seen a photograph of his grandparents. Alexandre recounted how his father Wolf always thought that he was alone in the world and, like Eliahu, believed that no-one from his family survived the war. |
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New Publications |
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I Am Writing These Words to You – The Original Diaries, Będzin 1943 |
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By: Chajka Klinger | Editor: Avihu Ronen |
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Denunciation and Rescue – Dutch Society and the Holocaust |
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By: Pinchas Bar-Efrat |
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News Highlights |
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Israel Slams ‘Baseless’ Holocaust Legislation in Poland, in the New York Times New Israeli exhibit highlights power of photos in Holocaust , in Yahoo News David Cesarani awarded posthumous honour, in the Jewish Chronicle Pence wraps up Israel visit at Yad Vashem, in Ynet News Jews who saved other Jews from Nazis faced dilemmas too difficult for Solomon, in the Times of Israel 102-year-old man who lost family in Holocaust meets nephew for the first time, in ABC News Yad Vashem Uncovers 200,000 Previously Unknown Names of Hungarian Holocaust Victims, in the Times of Israel Last letters from the Holocaust: Remembering the victims, in Deutsche Welle |
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With Your Support |
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Help Collect Missing Names of Shoah Victims |
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Each person comes into the world with his or her own personality and set of skills, hopes and fears, dreams and desires – an identity. Encompassing the essence of that identity is a name, embodying not only the unique attributes of the individual, but their heritage and a connection to their past and future. The Nazis attempted to take millions of individuals and eliminate them entirely, replacing names with numbers. For seven decades, Yad Vashem has been investing great efforts to uncover the names of every victim of the Shoah. Today, with much of the relevant information found only in the memories of ever-aging Holocaust survivors and relatives, the passing of time is working against us. To date, 4,700,000 names of Shoah victims have been recorded in Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names. Partner with us in this urgent mission to collect the missing names. |
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