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In 2010, 3GNY launched an educational initiative entitled "WEDU" (We Educate), developed in conjunction with Facing History and Ourselves and the American Society for Yad Vashem. The four-week training empowers grandchildren of survivors to learn and compellingly share their family histories and lessons of the Holocaust with the next generation ...
Cameron also amassed a large collection of materials and artifacts related to African-American history. [6] After retirement, Cameron and his wife visited Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Israel. He thought that the museum's focus on the personal history of individuals and their stories led to a better understanding of the reality ...
A Page of Testimony (Hebrew: דף עד) is a form issued by Yad Vashem (יד ושם) that asks for information about a Jewish victim of the Holocaust.Over 4.3 million Pages of Testimony have been submitted to Yad Vashem, [1] beginning in the 1950s. [2]
Yad Vashem (Hebrew: יָד וַשֵׁם; lit. ' a memorial and a name ') is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; echoing the stories of the survivors; honoring Jews who fought against their Nazi oppressors and gentiles who selflessly aided Jews in need; and researching the phenomenon of the Holocaust ...
Alice Resch Synnestvedt (b. 14 December 1908, Chicago, [1] d. 2007) was a Norwegian-American who worked in Vichy France for the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) during World War II. In 1982, she was recognized by Yad Vashem for saving Jewish children from deportation to concentration camps in Nazi Germany.
Every Person Has a Name or Everyone Has a Name (he:לכל איש יש שם) is Yad Vashem's commemoration project to document the names of those killed in the Holocaust. The project's goal is to commemorate the victims individually, ensuring that at the very least the names of the millions of Jews murdered in the Holocaust are recorded.
Polish Righteous Medals and diplomas awarded at a ceremony in the Polish Senate on 17 April 2012 There are 7,232 Polish men and women recognized as Righteous by the State of Israel Righteous Among the Nations The Holocaust Rescuers of Jews Righteousness Seven Laws of Noah Yad Vashem By country Austrian Croatian Czech German Hungarian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish (list) Romanian Serbian Ukrainian
In 2007, Mosberg and his wife received the Yad Vashem Remembrance Award. [14] In 2009, Mosberg was one of half a dozen people who met with Pope Benedict XVI at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Israel. [8] In 2015 his story was featured in the documentary Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations. [8]