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Events 2016

Former Canadian Minister of Justice, The Hon. Irwin Cotler: "We have a responsibility to unmask the bearers of false witness"

The Shoah in Contemporary Jewish Identity 

29/12/2016
International School Pedagogical Director Shulamit Imber spoke about the moral meanings of the Holocaust

Teaching the Holocaust in Formal and Informal Jewish Education

28/12/2016
Dr. Eyal Kaminka, Lily Safra Chair of Holocaust Education and Director of Yad Vashem's International School for Holocaust Studies, welcomes the participants to their first full day of the International Jewish Educators Conference

Second Day of Jewish Educators Conference: Jewish Identity During the Shoah

27/12/2016
Conference organizer and Director of the Jewish World and International Seminars Department Ephraim Kaye opens "The Shoah and Jewish Identity: Challenges in Jewish Education" International Conference

International Conference for Jewish Educators Opens at Yad Vashem

26/12/2016
Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev Awarded Spanish Order of Civil Merit

Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev Awarded Spanish Order of Civil Merit

15/12/2016
Director of the Hall of Names Dr. Alexander Avram (left) guided the President and his wife through the Holocaust History Museum

President of Guatemala at Yad Vashem

28/11/2016
Foreign Minister Silva (left) was guided through the Holocaust History Museum by Dr. Avraham Milgram of Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Research

Portuguese Foreign Minister at Yad Vashem

24/11/2016
The Prime Minister was accompanied by Mr. Jacek Sellin, Secretary of State at the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

Polish Prime Minister at Yad Vashem

22/11/2016
The extended family of Benno Gerson and his late sister Anni Goldberg at the event honoring their wartime rescuers, Joseph and Marie Andries

Belgian Righteous Among the Nations and a Family Reunion

22/11/2016
The mayors received a guided tour of the Holocaust History Museum

International Mayors Visit Yad Vashem

15/11/2016
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev toured Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum, including the model of the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Russian Prime Minister at Yad Vashem

11/11/2016
President Reuven Rivlin: "Remembrance must become a moral, social and ethical code"

Symposium in Memory of Prof. Elie Wiesel, z"l

06/11/2016
The President was guided through the Holocaust History Museum by Director of Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Research Dr. Iael Nidam-Orvieto

Italian President at Yad Vashem

30/10/2016
The Chairman at the exhibit on the Nazi rise to power

Chinese People's Congress Chairman at Yad Vashem

20/09/2016
Minister Bishop toured the Holocaust History Museum, which tells the story of the Holocaust accompanied by hundreds of personal accounts and artifacts

Australian Foreign Minister at Yad Vashem

04/09/2016
Members of the Kigali Genocide Memorial delegation in Yad Vashem's Hall of Names, where, to date, some 4.6 million individual Holocaust victims are commemorated

Rwandan Memorial Leadership Visit Yad Vashem

28/07/2016
In the Holocaust History Museum - where hundreds of personal stories are told

President of Paraguay at Yad Vashem

18/07/2016
Anthonie Vink, son and grandson of the Righteous, was honored to rekindle the Eternal Flame during a memorial ceremony held in the Hall of Remembrance

Yad Vashem Honors Dutch Righteous Among the Nations

12/07/2016
Director of the International Institute for Holocaust Research Dr. Iael Nidam-Orvieto spoke at the ceremony

Yad Vashem Scholarships for MA and PhD Students

29/06/2016
At the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding, which promotes teacher training in Holocaust education for Cypriot educators

Cyprus Signs Educational Agreement with Yad Vashem

22/06/2016
The Minister rekindled the Eternal Flame and laid a wreath on behalf of the Polish nation during a memorial ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance

Polish Foreign Minister at Yad Vashem

15/06/2016
In the Holocaust History Museum, at the exhibit dedicated to the rescue of Denmark's Jews by boat in October 1943

Speaker of the Danish Parliament at Yad Vashem

07/06/2016
In the Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations with Yad Vashem Guide Liz Elsby

Liberian President Tours Yad Vashem

06/06/2016
Nobuki Sugihara and his wife touring the Holocaust History Museum

Nobuki Sugihara Tours Yad Vashem

05/06/2016
Touring the Holocaust History Museum

Visit of Finnish Foreign Minister

01/06/2016
Evangelis, Helene and Michalis Voliotis rekindle the Eternal Flame in the Hall of Remembrance

Greek Righteous Among the Nations Honored at Yad Vashem

31/05/2016
Yad Vashem Researcher Aron Shneyer (right) guided the Minister through Yad Vashem

Deputy Prime Minister of Turkmenistan at Yad Vashem

30/05/2016
Alan Cumming toured the Holocaust History Museum, including the Hall of Names

Visit of Actor Alan Cumming

30/05/2016
Dr. Robert Rozett (left) guided the Minister through the Holocaust History Museum, which contains over 100 video testimonies and thousands of photographs and artifacts from the Holocaust period

Croatian Foreign Minister at Yad Vashem

28/05/2016
Minister Thapa and his wife Pralita toured the Holocaust History Museum

Visit of Nepalese Deputy Prime Minister

25/05/2016
Prime Minister Valls took a keen interest in the many individual testimonies and stories stationed throughout the Holocaust History Museum

French PM at Yad Vashem

23/05/2016
The Foreign Minister took a special tour of the Holocaust History Museum

Ivory Coast Foreign Minister at Yad Vashem

17/05/2016
Memorial Service in the Hall of Remembrance in the presence of Chairman Avner Shalev, Michael and Laura Mirilashvili, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Minister Zeev Elkin, Rabbi David Lau, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, and Special Advisor to the Chairman, Arie Zukerman

Inauguration of the Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union at Yad Vashem

09/05/2016
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, Minister Zeev Elkin, Yad Vashem Archives Director Dr. Haim Gertner and Deputy Speaker of the Knesset Tali Ploskov were among the honored speakers

Official VE Day Ceremony at Yad Vashem

08/05/2016
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore toured the Holocaust History Museum

Visit of Singapore Prime Minister

19/04/2016
Craig David toured the Holocaust History Museum

Craig David Tours Yad Vashem

10/04/2016
The winning poster by Italian graphic design student Gulia De Benedetti

Designing Memory: Italian Student Wins Poster Competition

06/04/2016
NSW Premier Mike Baird and his wife Kerryn tour the Holocaust History Museum

NSW Premier Visits Yad Vashem

05/04/2016
President Iohannis and his wife Carmen were guided through the Holocaust History Museum by Director of Yad Vashem's Hall of Names Dr. Alexander Avram (right).

Romanian President Visits Yad Vashem

08/03/2016
President Kenyatta was guided through the Hall of Names by Dr. Robert Rozett, Director of the Yad Vashem Libraries

Kenyan President Visits Yad Vashem

23/02/2016
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Prime Minister Netanyahu tour the new exhibition of Yad Vashem artworks currently on display in Berlin

Prime Minister Netanyahu Visits Yad Vashem Art Exhibition in Berlin

16/02/2016
Ambassador Power toured the Holocaust History Museum, paying special attention to the personal stories of the victims and survivors

US Ambassador to the UN Visits Yad Vashem

14/02/2016
Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council Rabbi Israel Meir Lau (left), Israeli Ambassador to the US H.E. Mr. Ron Dermer (second from left), American Society for Yad Vashem Chairman Leonard Wilf (fourth from right) and the families of the four Righteous

President Obama Attends Righteous Among the Nations Ceremony

28/01/2016
Left to right: Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev, Israel's President Reuven Rivlin and Holocaust survivor Mirjam Bolle with the Yad Vashem Publication <i>Letters Never Sent</i>

Yad Vashem Chairman Presents Israel's President with Survivor's Book of Letters

06/01/2016
Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum

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