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Events 2015

President Poroshenko and his wife Maryna toured the Holocaust History Museum, taking interest in the numerous personal artifacts and stories displayed within

Visit of Ukrainian President

22/12/2015
Left to right: Yad Vashem Chief Historian Prof. Dina Porat, Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research and John Najmann Chair for Holocaust Studies Prof. Dan Michman, donor Sabina, prize-winner Prof. Johann Chapoutot

2015 International Book Prize Awarded to Prof. Johann Chapoutot

21/12/2015
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama touring the Holocaust History Museum

"I'm Speechless"

21/12/2015
During his tour of the Holocaust History Museum, Prime Minister Tsipras viewed train tickets that Greek Jews were forced to purchase ahead of their transport to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp.

Greek PM at Yad Vashem

25/11/2015
Lithuania President Dalia Grybauskaite (right) lays a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance.

Dignitaries from Asia, Europe and North and South America Remember Holocaust Victims

29/10/2015
The developers endeavored to find ideas to keep young minds interested in the Holocaust story

History Meets Innovation

26/10/2015
Chief Executive C. Y. Leung and his wife Regina toured the Holocaust History Museum

Hong Kong Chief Executive Visits Yad Vashem

14/10/2015
Israel's President Reuven Rivlin,Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, Yad Vashem Director General Dorit Novak and Director of the Yad Vashem Libraries Dr. Robert Rozett in the Hall of Names

President of India Visits Yad Vashem

13/10/2015
Survivor Tova Silverstein looks at a photo of herself, her sister Matylda and other children at the postwar children's home in Marquain, Belgium. Her father, Hersch Lowenbraun, stands in the background - he was one of the children's teachers at the home

Posthumous Honor for Belgian Righteous Among the Nations

12/10/2015
The Prime Minister is presented with the Yad Vashem Album, "To Bear Witness"

Lithuanian Prime Minister Visits Yad Vashem

08/09/2015
Member of the Mahanot Haolim youth movement fly kites in the Square of Hope at Yad Vashem in memory of Janusz Korczak, Stefa Wilczynska and the children murdered at Treblinka

Kites for Korczak: Holocaust Survivors and Youth Honor Memory of Educator and the Children in His Care

09/08/2015
Hundreds of survivors and their families enjoyed the concert

"Mashiv Haruach" 2015 - an Annual Concert of Jewish Soul Music

04/08/2015
Italian Prime Minister H.E. Mr. Matteo Renzi (second from right), Israel's Minister of Education Naftali Bennett (left), Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev (second from left) and Dr. Iael Nidam-Orvietto

Recent Visits

02/08/2015
Samuel Pisar reads his text "Dialogue with God" accompanied by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra playing Leonard Bernstein's "Kaddish" at Yad Vashem in 2009

Yad Vashem Mourns Passing of Samuel Pisar

30/07/2015
The players contemplate the collection of victims' shoes

NBA Stars Visit Yad Vashem

26/07/2015
Left to right: Croatian President H.E. Ms. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Branko Lustig, Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev, and Visual Center Director Liat Benhabib standing by the Oscar statue donated to Yad Vashem by Branko Lustig

"Schindler's List" Oscar on Display at Yad Vashem

22/07/2015
Internet Department Director Dana Porath gives a guided explanation of the online site dedicated to the community of Nieswiez

Story of Nieśwież Launched on "Here Their Stories Will be Told"

21/07/2015
Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, delivers the keynote address at the IAJGS Conference

International Jewish Genealogy Conference 2015

10/07/2015
Prof. Dan Michman, Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research (left) and Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Yad Vashem Academic Advisor (center) at the workshop

Scholarly Workshop: The Fate of "Non-Jewish Jews" During the Shoah

09/07/2015
The Annual Lecture for Haredi Teachers in Memory of Samuel and Edward Cohen (USA) on the moment of liberation was given by Yad Vashem Council Chairman and Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Yafo Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, who was freed as a young boy from Buchenwald

"Three Weeks" Conferences for Ultra-Orthodox Educators

05/07/2015
Teachers congregate across the campus

Sixth National Teachers' Conference on Holocaust Education

01/07/2015
Isuf and Niqi Panariti

Son of Albanian Righteous Among the Nations and Albanian Minister of Agriculture Visits Yad Vashem

30/04/2015
The exhibition is designed as a "symbolic forest" structured around themes such as friendship, home and rites of passage

New Exhibition: Children in the Holocaust

12/04/2015
Yelena Vorotchik with Yakov Vorotchik and children

Belarus Righteous Among the Nations Posthumously Honored at Yad Vashem

25/03/2015
Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum

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