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Dempsey at Yad Vashem: God bless victims, protect Israel

Jerusalem Post - Jan 20, 2012
Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff visited Yad Vashem Friday, together with IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz. The US general reflected upon his visit to the Holocaust museum in a signed letter: "I have studied ...

Netanyahu: Israel must prevent the elimination of the Jewish people

Haaretz

Haaretz - Jan 22, 2012
Last week, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. In the Yad Vashem guest book, Dempsey expressed the US commitment to preventing a future Holocaust. ...

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: new exhibition at Yad Vashem

European Jewish Press

European Jewish Press - Jan 19, 2012
JERUSALEM (EJP)---Yad Vashem in Jerusalem will open a new exhibition, "Last Portrait: Painting for Posterity," on January 23 to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 January). The exhibition presents approximately 200 works from the Yad ...

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Auschwitz: True Tales From a Grotesque Land

by: Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
"From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness." With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this painful and compelling account of her experiences while imprisoned for two years in the infamous death camp. Writing twenty years after her liberation, she recreates the events of a dark past which, in her own words, would have driven her mad had she tried to relive it sooner. But while she records unimaginable atrocities, she also richly describes the human compassion that stubbornly survived despite the backdrop of camp depersonalization and imminent extermination.
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Yad Vashem: Remembering the Past, Shaping the Future

Containing the world's largest repository of information on the Holocaust, Yad Vashem is a leader in Holocaust education, commemoration, research and documentation. Located in Jerusalem, Israel, Yad Vashem's 45 acre campus comprises museums, exhibitions, memorials, sculptures, gardens, and world class research and education centers. Millions each year access Yad Vashem's vast resources in order to study, teach and commemorate the Holocaust. www.yadvashem.org

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Saved by Oskar Schindler: Testimony of Holocaust survivor Sol Urbach

Sol Urbach was born in Poland in 1925. He was one of the Jews that were protected and rescued by Oskar Schindler in Cracow and then in Plaszow www1.yadvashem.org This story was prepared with the support of The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany

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Yad Vashem to honor Frenchman

The family of Frenchman Yves Criou will accept a medal and certificate in his honor at a ceremony at Yad Vashem. The event honoring Criou declared a Righteous Among the Nations, will take place at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem on Sunday morning. His children Francoise Criou and Reuven Kagan will accept the award and the French Ambassador in Israel Christophe Bigot will also be present. Criou, a religious Catholic from France, married Lisa (Lisette)Kahan, the daughter of an observant Jewish family who had emigrated to France from Russia in 1936. During World War 2 he was drafted into the French Army and captured by the Germans but succeeded in escaping and returning to France. On his return, he worked with his brother in law Julien Kletjman who was later arrested and sent to Auschwitz where he died. Criou agreed to hide Kletjman's wife and son and other family members from the Nazis. In March 1944 fearing the Nazis may discover the family members he moved them all to an apartment in Paris and to support them opened a radio repair shop in the basement. Shortly after, the Allied forces liberated France. Criou died in September 1981. In March this year the Commission for the Designation of the Righteous Among Nations at Yad Vashem decided to award Criou the title.

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Pope Benedict XVI Speaks at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum

Pope Benedict XVI speaks at Yad Vashem during his visit on May 11, 2009. For more information about the Pope's visit, click tinyurl.com Footage courtesy of Israel Broadcasting Authority

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