Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum and memorial.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum and memorial.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum and memorial.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum and memorial.
Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, said in an interview there is still ‘a lot of work to do’ on Holocaust awareness and confronting antisemitism
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will speak remotely to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. But he will not speak or hold a mass rally at Israel’s Yad Vashem, as Ukrainian officials had requested, the Israeli news outlet Walla reported on Sunday. According to Walla, Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan turned the Ukrainian request down…
On Monday, December 27, folklore expert Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett will discuss the history of how Yiddish was included as one of the languages utilized at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The talk, to be presented in English, is part of the week-long annual festival, “Yiddish New York” to take place…
The proposed nomination of Effie Eitam to head Yad Vashem would irrevocably wound Israel and the Jewish people’s memorial to the Holocaust. It will seriously weaken Israel’s ability to invoke the moral authority conferred on the Jewish people by that event. The move is unwise and undermines the memory of the Shoah’s victims and the…
(JTA) — Israel is set to honor the couple who rescued Jewish film director Roman Polanski from the Holocaust. A grandson of Stefania and Jan Buchała will accept the medal naming them posthumously as Righteous Among the Nations, a title that Israel confers on non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from the Nazis,…
(JTA) — Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum, had a response to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referring to migrant detention centers as “concentration camps.” “The U.S. is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is exactly what they are,” the freshman New York Democrat had said Monday night in an Instagram Live video. “If that doesn’t…
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro said “there is no doubt” that Nazism was a leftist movement, just after visiting Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum. Bolsonaro’s remarks directly contradicted information on the museum’s website saying Germany’s Nazi movement rose out of right-wing radical groups responding to the rise of communism. In…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The architect who designed the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem was among the winners of the 2019 Wolf Prize. Moshe Safdie, 80, chosen for architecture, was one of five recipients honored Wednesday at the president’s residence in Jerusalem. The Wolf Prize is given by the president of Israel on…
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