Irish Foreign Minister Visits Yad Vashem

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney (right) at the exhibit on liberation in the Holocaust History Museum
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11 July 2017

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland Simon Coveney visited Yad Vashem today. Minister Coveney toured the Holocaust History Museum, guided by Yad Vashem Libraries Director Dr. Robert Rozett, participated in a memorial ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance and visited the Children's Memorial – a unique memorial to the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust.

"This is the deepest and most horrifying scar in the body of mankind," Minister Coveney wrote in the Yad Vashem Guest Book. "This place [Yad Vashem] ensures the world never forgets. So many terrible lessons for the future, so much pain for so many connected to this shame."

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney (right) at the exhibit on liberation in the Holocaust History Museum

Foreign Minister Simon Coveney (front) inspects exhibits on Nazi war criminals in Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum

The Irish Foreign Minister toured the Hall of Names – a symbolic tombstone to the six million Jewish men, women and children murdered during the Shoah

Ireland's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade laid a commemorative wreath in the Hall of Remembrance. (Background: Ireland's Ambassador to Israel H.E. Ms. Alison Kelly and Israel's Ambassador to Ireland H.E. Mr. Ze'ev Boker)