This is the Forward’s coverage of Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum and memorial.
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The Schmooze Prince William Is Right About Holocaust Museums
Prince William visited Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum and memorial, as part of his visit to Israel on Tuesday. American leaders who have visited the sight have venerated it — Hillary Clinton called Yad Vashem “a testament to the power of truth” and President Obama wrote that it serves as “a powerful reminder.” George Bush…
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Fast Forward ‘A Thousand Kisses’ As Yad Vashem Spotlights Hopes Of Doomed Holocaust Victims
“Hope to see you in good health, a thousand kisses, mommy,” were the last words Betty’s mother wrote to her before being sent with her eight-week-old baby to their deaths at the Sobibor Nazi concentration camp in eastern Poland in 1943. Sitting at her home with a pastoral view from a hilltop town overlooking the…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Head Says World Has Failed To Prevent Atrocities In Syria
The chairman of Yad Vashhem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum, said on Tuesday that international organizations established in response to World War II have failed in Syria, The Times Of Israel reported. Avner Shalev’s comment was in response to Saturday’s alleged chemical attack on the rebel-held town of Douma by President Bashar Assad’s regime. “We all…
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Fast Forward Dutch Politician Who Saved Hundreds Of Children During Holocaust Dies At 107
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Johan van Hulst, a Dutch politician who saved hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust, has died at the age of 107. Van Hulst and resistance activists smuggled the children to safety over several months. He was the director of a Protestant religious seminary in Amsterdam with a yard that bordered on…
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Fast Forward Top Polish Diplomat Vows To Remove ‘Polish Police’ Text From Yad Vashem
(JTA) — A top Polish diplomat vowed to “intervene” in having text removed from the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Israel that speaks of “Polish police” under Nazi occupation. Jan Dziedziczak, the deputy director of the Polish Foreign Ministry, complained about the text in an interview on Thursday while on a visit in Israel, Radio…
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Yiddish World A Stunning Reminder Of The Holocaust Finds Its Way To Survivor’s Daughter
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. January 1945 – Czestochowa Ghetto, Nazi-Occupied Poland With the Soviet Army fast approaching, German soldiers have begun liquidating the ghetto’s last surviving residents in advance of a hasty retreat. Knowing that capture means nearly certain death, a man desperately searches for a place to hide. Around his…
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Community Jews Critiquing Pence’s Holocaust Memorial Tweet Need To Brush Up On The Bible
Back in college, a rabbi of mine shared a story from a talk on the story of Joseph he gave to unaffiliated Jewish retirees. After the rabbi spoke at length about the biblical narrative and his brothers’ trials and tribulations in Egypt, an older woman raised her hand. “So, when did Joseph end up meeting…
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Israel News Holocaust Survivors Debate: Is It Okay To Compare African Migrants To Jews Under Nazis?
As the battle wages over the intention of Israel’s government to expel thousands of African migrants who entered the country through its southern border, Holocaust survivors are speaking up against the move and, at times, are being criticized for doing so. Do survivors of the Jewish genocide who had faced the struggle of seeking asylum…
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