German President at Yad Vashem

05 May 2017

The President of the Federal Republic of Germany H.E. Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited Yad Vashem on 5 May. Accompanied by his wife Elke Büdenbender and Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev, the President viewed the Museum of Holocaust Art and the Children's Memorial, and took a behind-the-scenes tour of Yad Vashem's Archives. Following a memorial ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, President Steinmeier signed the Yad Vashem Guest Book. "We Germans have incurred inconceivable guilt," he said. "At this place, memory becomes pain, mourning and shame. Acknowledging the responsibility for what happened, we firmly stand at Israel's side working for a common future."

Director of the Art Department and Art Curator Eliad Moreh-Rosenberg guided the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, through the Museum of Holocaust Art, where some 120 artworks created during or immediately after the Holocaust are on permanent

The President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, at the memorial ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance – where the ashes of Holocaust victims are buried beneath the floor that bears names of Holocaust concentration and death camps.

Archives Director Dr. Haim Gertner presents The President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, with the original blueprints of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex, obtained for Yad Vashem in 2009 by the then Editor-in-Chief of the Bild newspaper Kai Diekm

The President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, at the "Gathering the Fragments" exhibition in the foyer of the Library and Archives, Yad Vashem.