Tag: Dani Dayan
Yad Vashem rejects genocide allegation against Israel
Israel’s main Holocaust museum on Sunday categorically rejected claims that Israel was perpetrating genocide as “dangerous distortions” of historical truth that “desecrate the memory of the victims” of the Nazi genocide.
An honorary chairman of...
Israel assumes rotating IHRA presidency
Israel assumed the annual, rotating presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on Monday, amid a groundswell of global antisemitism.
The Jewish state's presidency coincides with the 80th anniversary of the end of World War...
Yad Vashem lauds Austria for combating antisemitism
Austria has emerged as a leader in the fight against antisemitism, and has become one of Israel’s biggest supporters in the European Union, the head of Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial said on Tuesday.
The...
Yad Vashem: Ambassador’s yellow-star UN protest dishonors Holocaust victims
The head of Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial on Tuesday criticized Israel's U.N. ambassador for donning a yellow Star of David during an address to the U.N. Security Council, saying the stunt "dishonors both...
Israel, Argentina sign agreement to share Holocaust archives
Argentina agreed to share archival records about Jews who fled the Holocaust to the country this week in a new agreement signed between Yad Vashem‒The World Holocaust Remembrance Center and the Archivo General de la Nación (General Archive...
At Vatican, Pope Francis discusses Holocaust, anti-Semitism with Dani Dayan
Chairman of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center in Jerusalem, Dani Dayan, met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday.
“I felt the weight of responsibility as someone who represents not only himself and...
Holocaust survivors up in arms over planned auction of Nazi memorabilia
Holocaust survivors and those involved in efforts to maintain the memory of the Shoah are up in arms over plans to put some 20 Nazi artifacts up for auction next week.
Among the artifacts to...
Yad Vashem chairman invites Whoopi Goldberg to visit Holocaust museum
The chairman of Yad Vashem on Tuesday invited talk-show host Whoopi Goldberg to visit the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem to learn more about the causes of the Shoah. The invitation came on the...
Yad Vashem chair urges Christian world to keep Holocaust Remembrance Day
In his first appearance before an exclusively Christian audience as the new chairman of Yad Vashem, Dani Dayan this week urged the Christian world to turn International Holocaust Remembrance Day every Jan. 27 into...
Dani Dayan appointed chair of Yad Vashem, meets with Holocaust-survivor staff
The Israeli government on Sunday confirmed the appointment of Israel’s former Consul General in New York Dani Dayan as the new chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate.
Dayan, 65, served as Israel’s consul general in New York...