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About the International Institute for Holocaust Research
Research and publications on the Shoah have always been high priorities of Yad Vashem since its official founding by the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) in 1953. Due to the increase of international interest in the Shoah, the desire to encourage and support worldwide scholarly research on the Shoah and related topics, Yad Vashem established the International Institute for Holocaust Research in 1993. Continue reading...
Research Centers
The Diana and Eli Zborowski Center for the Study of the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Research Projects
The Deportations of Jews Project
The Deportations of Jews Research Project and Digital Database (“Transports to Extinction”) is reconstructing all transports of Jews from every Jewish community carried out by the Nazi regime during the period of the Shoah. The intention is to collect reliable and detailed information about each transport route, the bureaucratic deportation apparatus as well as the socio-economic background of the victims, enabling a comprehensive research of the deportations and their victims. The institute's researchers are using a wide range of documents, including official Nazi documentation, personal accounts of survivors and various studies on deportations carried out since 1945.
The Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research
The recipients for the 2024 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research in Memory of Benny and Tilly Joffe z”l are:
Professor Hermann H. Beck for his book: Before the Holocaust: Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions during the Nazi Takeover
Professor Doris L. Bergen for her book: Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany
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Events of the Research Institute
The International Institute for Holocaust Research is active in organizing symposia, workshops and international conferences sometimes in collaboration with universities and other research institutions in Israel and abroad. Continue reading...