Yad Vashem

Grapevine, May 14, 2025: All in the family

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University heads now give ‘different tone’ on antisemitism, Yad Vashem’s chair says

He said the situation on campuses was 'unlike anything I had ever seen in those institutions - the calls for Israel's elimination were explicit.'

Zikaron Basalon transforms the stories of Holocaust survivors into living memory

The intimate gathering, the conversation, the questions – all of these create a memory that is not just a ceremony, but a human experience connecting past, present, and future.

By MICHAL LIPMAN 
24/04/2025

Revealing Yad Vashem’s Touching Memory Theater

“I would talk to Bear all the time, share my feelings with him and cry to him. He was my only connection to my family.” – Fred Lessing

By NERIA BARR
24/04/2025

Israel commemorates 80 years since the Holocaust

Herzog said that he would lead survivors, bereaved families, and former hostages, in the March of the Living in Auschwitz on Thursday.

Eight Holocaust survivors to participate in Yad Vashem's Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony

They will be joined by Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan, who will light the Memorial Torch, while six different Holocaust survivors who will light six separate torches. 

 IDF General Staff members in Yad Vashem's Hall of Names, April 21, 2025.

IDF General Staff visits Yad Vashem to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

The generals also met and held a discussion with Holocaust survivor, Lea Balint, and presented her with a certificate.

HERBERTS CUKURS, deputy commander of the infamous Latvian death squad in 1937

Yad Vashem denounces Latvia closing investigation on 'Butcher of Riga' Herberts Cukurs

Yad Vashem also denounced the "repeated attempts to rehabilitate Cukurs's image in Latvia by distorting and ignoring historical truth."

23/04/2025

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