Tag: Yad Vashem
Canary in the mine: Yad Vashem’s Holocaust-awareness programs tackle 21st-century anti-Semitism
It’s American teachers like Lori Fulton who, with their commitment to Holocaust education, are poised to be potent forces for holding back the current tidal wave of anti-Semitism for the next generation.
Many of the...
Germany, Yad Vashem mark 80 years since Kristallnacht
The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem held a memorial service and seminar on Nov. 8 to mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht or “Night of Broken Glass.” The event, a joint...
Must Jews and Poles keep fighting about the Holocaust?
It’s never wise to get into an argument about the Holocaust with Yad Vashem.
That’s the moral of the story with regard to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s inept attempt to resolve a quarrel with...
Yad Vashem slams recent Israeli-Polish leaders’ joint statement on Holocaust
The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum strongly criticized the “highly problematic wording” of a recent joint statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, that sought to end a...
Prince William lays wreath at Yad Vashem, honoring his great-grandmother
The United Kingdom’s Prince William laid a wreath at the Yad Vashem Hall of Remembrance on Tuesday, signing the guestbook during his first official tour of the State of Israel.
“It has been a profoundly...
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz visits Yad Vashem, Western Wall as part of Israel visit
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum and the Western Wall on Sunday as part of a three-day visit to Israel.
Kurz is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Israel remembers Holocaust victims, as its leaders advocate for an end to human suffering
Yad Vashem commemorated its annual Yom Hashoah ceremonies and events on April 11 with the theme “70 Years of Remembering and Building: Holocaust Survivors and the State of Israel.”
At the remembrance center’s opening ceremony...
Jews who saved other Jews from Nazis faced dilemmas too difficult for Solomon
Following the bloody month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April 1943, a cable was sent from British Mandate Palestine to occupied Poland’s Jewish Fighting Organization members. It contained the Jewish settlement leaders’ instructions to the...
Sole remnant of Dutch town’s Jewish community on display at Yad Vashem
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Stained glass from the synagogue that served the Jews of the Dutch city of Assen, almost all of whom were killed in the Holocaust, is now displayed at the synagogue of...
Donald Trump at Yad Vashem leaves a bizarrely chipper note for posterity
This morning, President Donald Trump visited Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust memorial museum on the edge of Jerusalem. Flanked by Israeli and American flags, the president spoke gravely of the “millions of innocent, wonderful,...