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63 years after the events - survivor meets his rescuer for the first time after the war

Ceremony Honoring Magdalena Grodzka-Guzkowska from Poland as Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem

06/01/2009
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accompanied by Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council Rabbi Israel Meir Lau in the Holocaust Art Museum

Visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Yad Vashem

03/03/2009
A moment of silence in memory of the Jewish combatants who fell in battle during WWII

Official Ceremony Commemorating VE Day

10/05/2009
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performs in Warsaw Ghetto Square in Yad Vashem

Special Concert at Yad Vashem of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

01/06/2009
Pictured (right to left) Stan Polovets, Pyotr Aven, Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev, Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, Foreign Minister Liberman, Minister Edelstein, and Special Advisor to the Chairman of Yad Vashem Arie Zuckerman

Ceremony Marking the Cooperation between Yad Vashem and the Genesis Philanthrophy Group

12/06/2009
Presentation of the medal and certificate to the daughters of Feodor Mikhailichenko. From right to left: the daughters of the rescuer - Yelena Belayaeva and Yulia Selutina, Chairman of the Commission for the Designation of the Righteous Among the Nations

Righteous Among the Nations Ceremony in Honor of Feodor Mikhailichenko - the Rescuer of Rabbi Israel Meir Lau in Buchenwald

04/08/2009
A Memorable Concert at Yad Vashem

A Memorable Concert at Yad Vashem

23/08/2009
(From left to right) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Bild Editor Kai Diekmann, and Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev study the original plans of Auschwitz during the ceremony

Yad Vashem Receives Original Auschwitz Plans in a Ceremony in Berlin

27/08/2009
Justice Jacob Türkel, Chairman of the Commission for the Designation of the Righteous Among the Nations, and Avner Shalev, Yad Vashem Chairman, presenting the medal and certificate to the grandchildren of Righteous Among the Nations Louise Roger

Ceremony in honor of Louise Roger, Righteous Among the Nations from France

27/10/2009
Prime Minister of Spain at Yad Vashem

Prime Minister of Spain Visits Yad Vashem

15/10/2009
Mr. Jan Kmita and Ms. Ewa Nowakowska with the Righteous Among the Nations certificate in honor of their grandparents, the late Krolina and Mikolaj Kmita

Righteous Among the Nations Award Ceremony Honoring Krolina and Mikolaj Kmita, Poland

04/11/2009
Michael Verhoeven (right) receiving the "Avner Shalev Yad Vashem Chairman's Award" at the 2009 Jerusalem International Film Festival.

Avner Shalev Yad Vashem Chairman’s Award for 2009 Given to the German Director Michael Verhoeven

25/11/2009
Memorial ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance. From the left - Polish Ambassador to Israel Agnieszka Magdziak Miszewska, the granddaughter of Wojciech Twardzicki, Jadwiga Zarnowiecka, and Holocaust survivor Zahava Schwartz

Righteous Among the Nations Award Ceremony Honoring Wojciech, Helena, Zofia, and Wladyslawa Twardzicki from Poland

30/12/2009