Press Releases 2001

The passing of Dr. Gerhart Riegner, the World Jewish Congress representative in Geneva, who alerted the world to the murder of the Jews in the Holocaust

Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, 8-9.4.02 Central Theme and Events at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

Two Bulgarian Clergymen Named as Righteous Among the Nations for saving Jews during the Holocaust

Symposium at Yad Vashem Marking Publication in Hebrew of “Neighbors”, on the Jedwabne Massacre, in presence of author Prof. Jan Tomasz Gross

Three Ceremonies Honoring Ukrainians as Righteous Among the Nations

Croatian President Mesic Apologizes for Croatian Crimes Against the Jews during the Holocaust

Romanian Ambassador to Israel Announced Romania Will Send Politicians to Yad Vashem for an Educational Seminar on the Holocaust in RomaniaAmbassador Ensured Chairman That Romania Will Establish an International Holocaust Commission

The Acts of Terror in the United States

Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate to UN Secretary-General: Prevent acceptance of Arab Nations’ redefinition of the term Holocaust at Durban conference

Wagner in Israel: The issue of whether the music of the notorious antisemite and composer Richard Wagner should be publicly performed in Israel remains impassioned fifty-six years after the fall of the Nazi regime

Valuables stolen from Italian Jews during World War II given to Yad Vashem

Visit of Foreign Minister Peres and Mikhail Gorbachev to Yad Vashem

Visit of US Secretary of State Colin Powell to Yad Vashem