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Hilda Shlick (formerly Glasberg) thought she had lost practicall
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Hilda Shlick (formerly Glasberg) thought she had lost practically all of her family in the Holocaust. By searching Yad Vashem's Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names, Hilda's grandchildren discovered that most of Hilda's family had in fact survived. As a result, an emotional meeting between Hilda and her brother Simon was able to take place at Yad Vashem. A family that had been separated for over 60 years was finally reunited.
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Yad Vashem's world famous Holocaust History Museum is a prism-li
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Yad Vashem's world famous Holocaust History Museum is a prism-like triangular structure that penetrates the mountain from one side to the other, with both ends dramatically cantilevering into the open air. An experiential dimension was integrated into the museum's design, giving visitors an overall impression of the time, place and atmosphere. Inside the museum, a series of diagonal channels cut in the floor of the walkway (prism) guides the visitor into each of the eight-meter high underground galleries depicting different chapters of the Shoah. The gently sloping floor and narrowing prism enhances the changing narrative, creating the illusion of descending deep into the mountain. Different aspects of the Holocaust are reflected through the use of original artifacts, documentation, testimonies, film, literature, diaries, letters, and works of art.
For more information about the museum, click http://www1.yadvashem.org/new_museum/overview.html
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Elie Wiesel, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace, was 15 when
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Elie Wiesel, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace, was 15 when the Nazis deported him, along with his family, from their home in Transylvania to Auschwitz. Losing both his parents and younger sister in the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel has made it his lifelong goal to teach the world about the Holocaust. In the video he commemorates his father by filling out a Page of Testimony for Yad Vashem's Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names. By filling out a Page for his father, who perished in Buchenwald concentration camp shortly before liberation, Elie Wiesel added his father to the millions of Holocaust victims commemorated by family and friends. Through the Pages of Testimony the victims names and identities are restored, that which the Nazis and their collaborators had tried to erase forever.
For more information on the database or to fill out Pages of Testimony click http://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/IY_HON_Entrance
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Zanne Farbstein was 16 years old when she was deported with her
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Zanne Farbstein was 16 years old when she was deported with her two younger sisters to Auschwitz. While working as a slave laborer, Zanne found her father's prayer shawl while sorting through the clothing of the prisoners who had been murdered in the camp. Zanne survived Auschwitz , and moved to Israel with her few surviving family members, where she began a new life.
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Yisrael Gutman was born in Warsaw in 1923. His parents and older
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Yisrael Gutman was born in Warsaw in 1923. His parents and older sister perished in the ghetto, and his younger sister was a member of Janusz Korczak's orphanage. As a member of the Jewish Underground in the Warsaw ghetto, Yisrael Gutman was wounded in the uprising. From Warsaw he was taken to Majdanek, and from there to Auschwitz. In May 1945 he was sent on the death march to Mauthausen. In total, he spent two years in the camps. After the war he helped in the rehabilitation of survivors, was active in the Bericha movement, and immigrated to Palestine in 1946. A world-renowned scholar of Holocaust studies, Prof. Gutman has dedicated his life to studying the Holocaust and perpetuating its lessons for the next generations.
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Dina Baitler, age seven, was brought to the forest of Ponary out
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Dina Baitler, age seven, was brought to the forest of Ponary outside of the city of Vilna, Lithuania together with thousands of other Jews. From morning till night the Jews were lined up and shot into pits located in the forest. Although wounded, Dina miraculously managed to escape. In her testimony here Dina describes here the horrors that took place that day in Ponary. Her eyewitness testimony ensures that the mass murder that took place will not be forgotten or denied.
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Pope John Paul II visited Yad Vashem on March 23, 2000. During this historic visit, the Po
Pope John Paul II visited Yad Vashem on March 23, 2000. During this historic visit, the Pope participated in a memorial ceremony in Yad Vashem's Hall of Remembrance. Presented here is a selection of the Pope's speech. He said:
The words of the ancient Psalm, rise from our hearts: "I have become like a broken vessel. I hear the whispering of many - terror on every side - as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life. But I trust in you, O Lord: I say, 'you are my God.'" (Psalms 31:13-15)
In this place of memories, the mind and heart and soul feel an extreme need for silence. Silence in which to remember. Silence in which to try to make some sense of the memories which come flooding back. Silence because there are no words strong enough to deplore the terrible tragedy of the Shoah.
My own personal memories are of all that happened when the Nazis occupied Poland during the war. I remember my Jewish friends and neighbors, some of whom perished, while others survived. I have come to Yad Vashem to pay homage to the millions of Jewish people who, stripped of everything, especially of human dignity, were murdered in the Holocaust. More than half a century has passed, but the memories remain.
Here, as at Auschwitz and many other places in Europe, we are overcome by the echo of the heart-rending laments of so many. Men, women and children, cry out to us from the depths of the horror that they knew. How can we fail to heed their cry? No one can forget or ignore what happened. No one can diminish its scale.
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On, Friday, October 26, 2007, Yad Vashem received the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award
On, Friday, October 26, 2007, Yad Vashem received the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for Concord from Spain's Crown Prince Felipe. Yad Vashem's nomination was proposed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and supported by eminent public figures from around the world. The award ceremony took place at the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, Spain, in the presence of the Spanish Royal Family. Holocaust survivors and Righteous Among the Nations accompanied Avner Shalev on the stage to accept the Award. They were enthusiastically received by the audience, who then stood for a moment of silence, to show their respect to the memory of those who perished during the Holocaust. For more information on the award and other international honors recently received by Avner Shalev and Yad Vashem, click http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_yad/press_room/press_release s/Awards_Ceremonies.html
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Prof. Yehuda Bauer, an academic advisor to Yad Vashem and one of the world's premier histo
Prof. Yehuda Bauer, an academic advisor to Yad Vashem and one of the world's premier historians on the Holocaust, discusses the relationship between the Holocaust and the emergence of the State of Israel. Dealing with the widely held belief that the State of Israel came into existence because of the Holocaust, Prof. Bauer clearly demonstrates the falsity of this widespread claim.
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