The Yad Vashem Blog
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World center for Holocaust research, documentation, education and commemoration. A dynamic place of inter-generational and international encounters. The Yad Vashem Blog of the World Holocaust Remembrance Center gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at various initiatives, events, and visits around the Yad Vashem campus. The blog includes posts about Holocaust survivors, exhibitions at Yad..
The Yad Vashem Blog
1M ago
"… I was saved by a young woman who was in as helpless a situation as the rest of us, and who nonetheless wanted nothing other than to help me. The more I think about the following scene, the more astonished I am about its essence, about someone making a free decision to save another person, in a ..read more
The Yad Vashem Blog
3M ago
How is it possible to actively engage teenagers from across the world to study the Holocaust? How can we encourage our youth to explore a historical event and be inspired by its stories of courage? And how do we provide a platform for students to showcase their own creativity? The Overseas ..read more
The Yad Vashem Blog
3M ago
I've worked at Yad Vashem for almost 30 years. During that time, there have been many occasions when I have been surprised, touched or moved to tears – usually in the course of a special event or occasion, be it a unique reunion of the Kindertransport, the inauguration of Block 27 at Auschwitz, or ..read more
The Yad Vashem Blog
5M ago
Yizkor has always been a prayer shrouded with emotion, drama and superstition for me. Older generations, including my parents, shooed us away as Yizkor was about to begin – fearful that we would be tainted from the sadness in the room or that our very presence would have morbid consequences. I well ..read more
The Yad Vashem Blog
5M ago
On Thursday, 23 November 2023 Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan participated in the Rome-Jerusalem Emergency Summit on Global Antisemitism, an initiative organized by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs at the initiative of Senator Giuliomaria Terzu di Sant’Agata, President of the European Union ..read more
The Yad Vashem Blog
6M ago
The phenomenon of antisemitism, sometimes termed "the longest hatred", has been in existence for 2,000 years in different cultures and parts of the world. Can distinct aspects of antisemitism be identified? Can one refer, for example, to the most extreme aspect of the phenomenon? Such as the racial ..read more
The Yad Vashem Blog
6M ago
The attacks on the Jewish population in Germany and Austria in November 1938 are commonly referred to in English (and in many other languages, but not in German) as , or the Night of Broken Glass, alluding to the shattered windows of the many Jewish homes, synagogues, shops ..read more
The Yad Vashem Blog
7M ago
Holocaust survivors, Madam Speaker and members of the Seimas Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. Abba Kovner, who grew up here in Vilnius, and emerged, soon after the start of the German occupation, as a leader of the Vilna ghetto’s partisan fighters, wrote in one of his ..read more
The Yad Vashem Blog
8M ago
At the end of WWII, when the extent of the mass murders that were the lot of the Jews in Europe and North Africa (and could have been that of the in the Land of Israel) were revealed, Mordechai Shenhavi once again raised the idea of a national institution to commemorate the ..read more
The Yad Vashem Blog
8M ago
Yad Vashem Mourns the Loss of Holocaust survivor Shlomo (Solly) Perel who Passed Away at the age of 98 in his Home was born in 1925 to a Jewish family in Germany. When he was eight years old, the Nazis came into power. Following the implementation of the Nuremberg laws, Shlomo was expelled from school, and in 1936, his family moved to Lodz, Poland. Following the Nazi invasion of ..read more