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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 ...
Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, whose mother and grandmother were survivors of Auschwitz, was asked by S. Isaac Mekel, director of development at the American Society for Yad Vashem, to take an item from Yad Vashem onto the American Space Shuttle Columbia. [2] Ramon carried with him a copy of a drawing by Ginz of the planet Earth as seen from the ...
Participating scholars come from Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Study Center at Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot, and the USHMM in Washington, D.C., to speak with teachers selected for the program. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] A biannual Alumni Conference of the program's participants further reinforces its goals to foster remembrance and toleration.
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]
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.
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]
In Spring 2005, he was a visiting professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, where he has been a frequent speaker, including at the annual Yom HaShoah Lecture hosted jointly by the American Society for Yad Vashem and Cardozo's Program in Holocaust & Human Rights Studies on “Remember How the Law Went Horribly ...
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 ...