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The Yad Vashem Blog is a platform for commemorating the Holocaust and the prewar Jewish world. Featuring personal stories, authentic artifacts and historical documents, the blog also explores the legacy of the survivors and analyzes the implications of Holocaust events for future generations.

The Difficulty of Belief: Even When the Atrocities Take Place Nearby

Abba Eban's Visit to Auschwitz

Thomas Geve - The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz

Doing a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Yad Vashem

Some Thoughts in Memory of Prof. Yehuda Bauer Z"L

Yad Vashem Mourns the Passing of Holocaust Survivor Lily Ebert, z"l

A Dairy, a Vessel, a Drawing: Disney Drawings in Yad Vashem's Collections

Remember the Stories: A Tribute to Alex Dancyg, Z"L

Unveiling the Depths of "122,499 Files" at Yad Vashem: Interview with Ran Slavin

Hanna's Legacy: A Story of Remembrance and Education

Remembering Heroes from the Holocaust

Echoes of the Past: Exploring Childhood Scrapbook Albums During the Shoah

An Anchor in the Darkness - Creating in Hiding During the Holocaust (A ready2print Exhibition)

Celebrating Purim in the Midst of Tragedy

Solidarity and Mutual Aid Between Women in the Camps

Who is your hero? - Stories from the Holocaust: an educational project from Yad Vashem

New exhibition in Yad Vashem: 'Bigger Than Me' – artist Shai Azoulay and curator Eliad Moreh-Rosenberg in conversation

Yad Vashem Employees Share Special Moments from Day-to-Day Work: Amanda's Story

Global Antisemitism: Attempts to Justify the Elimination of the State of Israel

The Most Radical Aspect of Antisemitism

Kristallnacht or the November Pogrom?

Yad Vashem Chairman Dayan Address to Lithuania's Seimas, 21 September 2023

Referencing Jewish History in Holocaust Art

Interpretation of Jewish Themes in Sermons During the Holocaust

Adapting Jewish Prayers During the Holocaust

Adapting Jewish Texts and Traditions During the Holocaust

Using NLP and AI to Keep Memories and Stories Alive

"We Must Always Stand Up and Speak Out": Visitors to Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance Day

A Truly Meaningful Service: Holocaust Survivors' Descendant Volunteers at Yad Vashem

"Giving Them Back Their Voice": The 2022 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research

Yad Vashem Mourns the Loss of Holocaust survivor Shlomo (Solly) Perel who Passed Away at the age of 98 in his Home

"I Only Know Human Beings": New Learning Environment on Righteous Among the Nations

Sixteen Objects from Yad Vashem on Display in Germany

Different Perspectives: The Postwar Period as Reflected through Art

On the Other Side of the Page: Reusing Paper during the Holocaust

"Girl Number 60427": Short Israeli Film Wins BAFTA Award

"A Very Real Threat": Jewish Elderly Resistance in Nazi Germany

Dance in Ghettos and Camps: Between Persecution and Survival

The Yad Vashem Story Chapter 2: Establishing Yad Vashem in the Jewish Homeland

The Yad Vashem Story. Chapter 1: Memorializing the Holocaust – Before It Had Ended

Regina Jonas: Pastor and Rabbi in Theresienstadt

Through the Eyes of a 12-Year-Old Girl: The Life of Janina Hescheles Altman (1931-2022)

"I Have to Tell My Story": Giselle (Gita) Cycowicz

Judaica Art Created by Holocaust Survivor Moshe Perl in Dachau

Deceptive Definitions: The Use of Language During the Holocaust

Work Permit from the War Reveals a Complete Journey

Family of Holocaust Survivor and Righteous Among the Nations from Poland Visited Yad Vashem

President of the Bundestag Actively Remembers a Victim of the Holocaust by Filling out a Page of Testimony for Irma Nathan

Voices from the Ghettos: Advanced Online Seminar for Italian Teachers

One Good Turn: Yad Vashem Employees Help Ukrainian Refugees

The Real Story: Exodus

A Personal Tragedy: Nachman Blumental’s Archive Reveals the Fate of His Family

Expanding Horizons: The Visual Center Reaches New Audiences

The Restoration Laboratory at Yad Vashem: Ensuring A Future for Holocaust Artifacts

“Tell the Children that Daddy Loved Them So Much”: The Miriam Rosen (Hirsch) Documents Collection

The Restoration Laboratory at Yad Vashem: Preserving Artifacts and the Stories They Tell

Adhering to the Historical Truth about the Mufti during the Holocaust

Gratitude and Recognition: A Career Dedicated to Holocaust Remembrance and Education

Antisemitism on College Campuses

Echoes of Remembrance

The Jewish Family and the Holocaust

The Earrings from Beregszász: Mystery Solved after Eighty Years

A Tapestry of Words

Shelved In: A Story of Rescue in the Netherlands

Redemption: The Orphans Yeshayahu Drucker Returned to the Jewish People

A Virtual Tour into the Past

"Remember that there once lived…": Yad Vashem's Online Project Commemorates Individual Holocaust Victims

"A Time to Heal" (Ecclesiastes 3: 3)The Children of Écouis: From Buchenwald to Normandy

"Auschwitz Camp" on a Black Shirt at the Capitol

Celebration through Commemoration

Judaism Does Not Counteract Universalism: Quite the Opposite

The Unprecedented Nature of the Holocaust and its Unique Features: Some Reflections - Part II

The Unprecedented Nature of the Holocaust and its Unique Features: Some Reflections - Part I

Yad Vashem Outreach to the Arab World

"Forgotten Neighbors": Poles Commemorate Jewish Victims of the Holocaust

A Symbol of Light for a Lost Community

Technology and Authenticity in the Service of Holocaust Remembrance

The November Pogrom "Kristallnacht" Virtual Commemoration

Who Am I? The Story of a Jewish Child from the Holocaust

Pius XII and the Holocaust – What Can We Learn From the Vatican Archives?

Teaching the Holocaust

Rare Documents from the Yad Vashem Archives Illustrate Opposing Life Views

We Think of You as an Angel: An Unlikely Jewish Rescuer and Hero

Combating Online Antisemitism in the Digital Universe

Holocaust Education Resolution for the New Year: Uniting for the Sake of Future Generations

The Jewish Underground Press in Warsaw (Part III)

The Jewish Underground Press in Warsaw (Part II)

The Jewish Underground Press in Warsaw

Holocaust Remembrance Undeterred

A Mission to Remember the Past

So Much Knowledge – and Yet So Much Still Unknown

Leaning In with Martha Salcudean

Holocaust Remembrance and Education during COVID-19

The Strength of the Collective

The Artifacts at Yad Vashem: Silent Witnesses to the Shoah

The Race Against the Clock: Rescue by Jews in Budapest

Commemoration from a Personal Perspective: News from the Library

German Police Cadets and Officers Learn from their Past

Father, Where Art Thou?

Unto Every Person, There Was a Name. Yad Vashem's Mission to Restore the Identities of the Victims of the Shoah

"Transports to Extinction" – The Deportations of Jews Project: Interview with Dr. Cornelia Shati-Geissler (Part 2)

"Transports to Extinction" – The Deportations of Jews Project: Interview with Dr. Cornelia Shati-Geissler (Part 1)

Creating Memory: When the Movie Cameras Came to the Death Camps

Growing up during the Holocaust

Dirty Science: Lingering Questions Regarding Medical Ethics and the Holocaust

A Meaningful Rite of Passage

Can We Use Nazi Medical Research in Order to Help Save Lives Today?

Shoah and the Medical Profession, 75 Years after the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau

Searching for Answers through Artifacts from the Holocaust

Keeping the Faith: The Importance of Judaica to Holocaust Remembrance

Marking 75 Years since Liberation: A Shavuot to Remember

"One for All": Rescue by Jews during the Holocaust

Unknown Heroes from the Holocaust Years - Peretz Revesz: Part III

Despite Antisemitic Zoom Attacks, Holocaust Survivior Tswi Herschel Will Not Desist

Unknown Heroes from the Holocaust Years - Peretz Revesz : Part II

Unknown Heroes from the Holocaust Years: Peretz Revesz

Upholding Honesty and Integrity. A Summary of the Developments in the Wake of the Video Clip Screened at the 5th World Holocaust Forum

Remembering the Holocaust from Space - A Special Message On International Women's Day 2020

Clarification regarding the videos presented during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum

Celebrating Sukkot – Before, During and After the Holocaust

Yad Vashem Connects Two Sides of one Family 75 years after the Holocaust

The Armoire that Saved Her Life

Yad Vashem Marks 80 Years Since the Kindertransport

Why Do We Need Good Holocaust Education?

Yad Vashem Senior Historian discusses antisemitism on the Ben Shapiro Show

The Moon Revisted

Yad Vashem mourn's the passing of Rabbi Yehoshua Eibeshitz z"l

After 62 years Yad Vashem's longest-serving employee Clara Gini retires

Yad Vashem Marks Women's History Month: The Death March to Volary: A Story of 1,300 Jewish Women

Jewish Family Saved from Holocaust by England, Donates Archives to Yad Vashem

"If You Remain Silent at this Time…" Female Jewish Rescuers during the Holocaust

My Summer Internship at Yad Vashem

Choosing Life: The Creations of Charlotte Salomon

"A Space for Reflection and Commemoration"

Expanding Holocaust Remembrance to the Chinese Public

"My Dreams Have Now Come True"

Commemorating the Murder of Jews, Avoiding Responsibility

In Search of Ladino. Restoration of Iconic Film Breathes New Life into Judeo-Spanish Culture

Echoes & Reflections – and Cherished Connections

Giving Testimony as a Vocation. Holocaust Researchers Meet Rabbi Yehoshua Eibeshitz

A Family Heirloom from the Lodz Ghetto

Generation to Generation: Teenagers Learn from Holocaust Survivors

Rescued Twice by a "Very Kind Man"

The Roma Girl and the Romanian Soldier

"Moon Landscape" Goes to Space Again

"Many Times I Cried Behind the Camera". Filming Holocaust Survivors’ Testimony in Their Homes

An Incredible Journey

One Ray of Sunshine

Yom Kippur in the St.-Cyprien Concentration Camp

The Call of a Shofar from the Depths of the Holocaust

"Superficial Knowledge Can be Catastrophic". Swedish Educators Attend Teachers Seminar at Yad Vashem

"Interesting, Inspiring, Surprising": Summer Interns at Yad Vashem

A Piano from a Destroyed World: How the Margulies family and their piano escaped from Nazi Germany

Commemorating a Bar Mitzvah at the age of 89

Artifact of the Month: A Hand Embroided Silver Waistcoat

The Long-Lost Powder Compact

The Jewish Refugee Problem 1933-1945: Reconsidered

Who Was Karoline Cohn?

First Cousins Reunited at Yad Vashem

"The Gift of Life"

Journey of the Doomed Revisited

"Keeping the Memory Alive"

Yad Vashem International Leadership Mission

Yad Vashem Leadership Mission Kicks Off in Wroclaw, Poland

Farwell to Elie Wiesel: a dear friend and an exemplary son of the Jewish People

Shoah Remembrance: A Personal Perspective

Unto Every Person There is a Name: Remembering Ita Rochel Aronstein

Connecting to my Jewish Roots

One of the Last Survivors of Treblinka Passes Away

Grandson of Polish Righteous Among the Nations Accepted Honor on their Behalf

Restoration of Wartime Diary Reveals Life in the Warsaw Ghetto

Remembering the 1+1+1

A Mother's Desperate Plea for her Son

My Father Kept a Cape in His Closet

Rywka's Diary to be restored and preserved at Yad Vashem

Discovering New Family

Check out the New York Times article featuring a photo from the Yad Vashem Archives

"My Mission: To Film and to Record"

David Cesarani (1956-2015)

Setting the Record Straight

Behind-the-Scenes at Yad Vashem: Reference and Information Services Department

That Refugee Crisis and This Refugee Crisis

Marking the New Year

Daughter of Survivors Learns About the Family She Never Got to Meet

The Return to Life

NBA Basketball players visit Yad Vashem

Remembering, Discovering, and Connecting at Int'l Jewish Genealogy Conference

Book Corner: Tin Soldier in a Cardboard Box

Holocaust Survivor Asher Aud receives the Yad Vashem Lifetime Achievement Award

A Grateful Experience

Yad Vashem Seminar Graduates Promote Holocaust Education in Turkey

Berthe Badehi - The Story of Survival

North Carolina High School Class Finds Relatives of Holocaust Victims

Holocaust Commemoration in South Africa

Faces of the Fallen

EHRI International Workshop at Yad Vashem: Holocaust Art – An Essential Tool for the Methodology of Constructing a Historical Narrative

Holocaust survivor, journalist and author Roman Frister passes away in Warsaw, aged 87

In Response to Comments Regarding Death Camps in Poland

Book Corner: Letters Never Sent

"All of Israel are Responsible for One Another"? International Research Conference at Yad Vashem

Holocaust-Era Menorah home for Hanukkah

Book Corner - The Journey of Ilse Kaufmann: Vienna-Prague-Buenos Aires

Yad Vashem Mourns the Passing of Naphtali Lau-Lavie

His Legacy Lives on – an Encounter at the Museum of Holocaust Art

Int'l Experts Explore Preservation of Holocaust Documentation in the Digital Era

Teachers who Rescued Jews during the Holocaust

ISIS, Nazis and the Ideology of Hate

Yad Vashem Summer Seminars Attract Educators from Around the World

Abusing the Language of the Holocaust - Not Just Semantics

Facebook Post Connects Dots on Mystery of Holocaust-era Postcards

Tombstones Tell the Stories of the Shoah

Hundreds of Educators from 50 Countries Attended the 9th International Conference on Holocaust Education

New Books in English Offer Varied Perspectives

Jewish Girl was "Poster Baby" in Nazi Propaganda

Reflections from the 60th Anniversary Mission

A Partnership of Remembrance for Years to Come

Ohio Dedicates New Holocaust and Liberators Memorial

Speech of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople at Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem Archives Receives San Marino WWII document

Preserving Memories for Posterity

101 Year Old Holocaust Survivor Completes Commemoration Efforts for Murdered Family Members

Symposium Sheds Light on Myth of "Judeo-Bolshevism"

A Purim Manuscript from the Holocaust

Film Symposium Explores Jewish life in the Netherlands during the Shoah

From Yad Vashem’s Spanish and Portuguese Speakers Desk

Revolt or Rescue? Jewish Dilemmas from the Holocaust

Museum Directors and Senior Researchers and Educators from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine Attend Special Seminar

The Search for the Six Million: Uncovering their Names, Recovering their Identities

New on the Bookshelf

A Journey of Exploration into a Family’s Righteous Past

Looking Back, Moving Ahead: Yad Vashem at 60

Yad Vashem 60th Anniversary Coin Issued by Bank of Israel

Personal Reflections at the GA

Moments of Bonding & Remembering

Rescuer and Survivors’ Families Unite at Yad Vashem: Donate Artifacts to Archives

Couple Donates Synagogue Photograph Collection to Yad Vashem

Rosh Hashanah 1944 - Prayers on a Paper Sack

Senior Artifacts Curator Honored

A Space for Memory

Cheryl Priven: “It Feels Like a Miracle Rising From the Ashes”

Police Forces' Roles in the Holocaust

"A Reservoir of Educational Talent"

From the Isles of the Aegean Sea to Auschwitz

Art’s Journey: From Nazi Germany to Yad Vashem

Holocaust Survivor Receives Books from Family Home through Grandson of Nazi Officer

Educators’ Summer Break Opens with Yad Vashem Conference

Keeping the Memory of 8-year-old Ruda Chaya Alive

Theater in Holland: A Cultural Refuge During the Holocaust - Part 2

Yad Vashem Receives Top Ranking from TripAdvisor

Theater in Holland: A Cultural Refuge During the Holocaust - Part 1

Defiance in the Ghetto

My First Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem - Part 2

My First Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem - Part 1

Remembering Rabbi Schacter

A tribute to a heroic woman: Jeanne Albouy

Scroll of Names Given to Yad Vashem

The Holocaust Began With Elections

The Little Known Uprising – Warsaw Ghetto January 1943

First Ever Seminar for Indian Educators at Yad Vashem

The End of 1942: A Turning Point in WWII and in the Comprehension of the Final Solution?

Shoah Survivor Commemorates the Brother he Never Knew

Remembering Settela: Refelctions Upon Visiting the New Monument to the Genocide of the Roma-Sinti in Berlin

Jarmila’s Diary

Reading the ‘Protocols’ in Athens

Yad Vashem and the Anne Frank House Strengthen Ties

Going Green on the Mount of Remembrance

Italian Minister of Education and 30 high school students at Yad Vashem's International School for Holocaust Studies

President of Israel Pays Tribute to Righteous Among the Nations Program

Butterflies for Hannah

Excavations at Sobibor Unearth New Information

"Informative; academically exhilarating, historically enthralling"

Handcrafted Toys in a Hidden Workshop

Solidarity in the Forest – The Bielski Brothers

Marking 70 Years since the Deportation of Polish Jewry to the Extermination Camps

Getting back to the basics about the Holocaust

Remembering Eliezer Ayalon

Righteous Among the Nations Receives US Presidential Medal of Freedom

Prayer Book Returned to Family of Original Owners Murdered in the Holocaust

An Iconic Photograph

An Inspirational Volunteer

Remembering Rabbi Jonathan Sandler

The British POWs Who Rescued Her Grandmother

Yad Vashem Chairman Remarks in Austria

Last letter from the Holocaust

New Yad Vashem Exhibitions Open in Israel and New York

International Seminars Wing Inaugurated to Meet Rising Demand

Abdelwahab: the full picture

A Day of Infamy

Chinese Educators Inspired at Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem Holocaust Database Unites Lost Cousins

Google Street View Trike Comes to Yad Vashem

Helping others discover family connections

"Her Mission is Over"

Holocaust-Fugitive Girl's Art Brings Tears at Yad Vashem Show

Yad Vashem Firefighting Staff Receive Certificates of Apprecation

Reflections on the 4th National Conference on Holocaust Education, July 5-6, ‏2011

A Story of Strength - Rescued by the Grace of his Voice

1,200 Israel Teachers to Attend Yad Vashem Conference

Prof. Bauer on the cause of World War II

Symposium at Yad Vashem marks 70 years since German invasion of Soviet Union

Meeting the Challenge

Yad Vashem Chairman to be Honored as Patron of Jerusalem

Making Holocaust Studies Relevant

Remembering the Jewish community of Macedonia

Bronka Klibanski, Holocaust survivor, partisan, woman of valor, 1923-2011

A New Stage at Yad Vashem

Marking Int'l Holocaust Remembrance Day 2011

Creative Expression Under Occupation

4 Million Victims of Holocaust Identified

Exploring hiding, sheltering and borrowed identities as means of rescue during the Holocaust

A Legacy of Jewish Continuity

New "Righteous Among the Nations" High School in Lodz

Huge New Holocaust Research Project Launched in Europe

Dozens of Children Saved by one Family Give Group Testimony at Yad Vashem

An Emotional Journey - Yad Vashem's Bar/Bat Mitzvah Twinning Programme

Chinese Educators at Yad Vashem for First of its Kind Int'l Seminar

Paying Tribute to a Courageous Survivor

Remember the Holocaust and Soviet Crimes Separately

A Rich Culture Remembered

NBA star Amare Stoudemire visited Yad Vashem

The Little Red Dress that Survived Generations

Yad Vashem Visit Leaves Young Palestinians Deeply Reflective

Discovering the Unknown

On Holocaust Education by Aleksander Kwasniewski

37,500 Names Deposited at Yad Vashem

Bette Midler visited Yad Vashem

Discovering Lost Family via the Yad Vashem Database

The Three R’s: Remembrance, Resentment and Responsibility

A Meaningful Connection for Zach Emanuel

A conversation with Dan Michman, Yad Vashem's Chief Historian

Yad Vashem Launches Groundbreaking Encyclopedia of the Ghettos

Names Recovery Project Volunteers Receive Special Training

New release from Yad Vashem Publications

A Tangible Legacy

A powerful visual voice

Jewish Music Comes to Life in Yad Vashem Synagogue

Producer of Avatar at Yad Vashem

In Memoriam - Elly Dlin

Personal Memories - Prof. David Bankier, obm

In Tribute to Ivan Vranetic, Righteous Among the Nations

The Holocaust in the Age of Genocide

Reflections on the Demjanjuk Trial - 2009

Fascinating New Memoir of Life in the Ghetto

A Sober Assessment

Rabbi Israel Meir Lau Spoke at Special Event Marking 71 Years Since Kristallnacht

Film Depicts 2,000 Years of Jewish History: "The World that Was"

97-Year-Old Survivor Sees her Story on Film

Faith during the Holocaust - Rosh HaShanah Prayers in a Forced labor Camp

Volunteers & Survivors Create Lasting Ties

Recommended Reading

Remembering Janusz Korczak and Rhodesian Jewry

Palestinian Youth Visit Yad Vashem

Imagining the Unimaginable: Visual Representations of the Holocaust Through Time

“2 or 3 Things I Know About Him…” A Film by Malte Ludin

Memory in Motion: The Holocaust, Memory and Video Dance