Visit of Nepalese Deputy Prime Minister

Minister Thapa and his wife Pralita toured the Holocaust History Museum
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25 May 2016

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nepal, H.E. Mr. Kamal Thapa, visited Yad Vashem today, Wednesday, 25 May 2016, together with his wife, Pralita Thapa, Israel's Ambassador to Nepal H.E. Mr. Yaron Meir, and Nepal's Ambassador to Israel H.E. Mr. Prahlad Kumar Prasai. The Minister toured the Holocaust History Museum, participated in a memorial ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, visited the Children's Memorial and signed the Yad Vashem Guest Book.

"The Holocaust was the most brutal and terrifying attack against humanity," wrote the Minister. "It was the darkest period in human history. I pray for the immortal souls of the victims of Holocaust."

Minister Thapa and his wife Pralita toured the Holocaust History Museum

In Yad Vashem's Hall of Names - a repository containing some 4.6 million names of individual Holocaust victims

The Minister laid a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance in memory of the six million Jewish men, women and children murdered during the Holocaust