Peter Dutton visits Yad Vashem
July 31, 2024 by Simmy Allen
Australia’s Leader of the Opposition, Peter Dutton, has been given a guided tour of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
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New video-art installation “122,499 Files” opens at Yad Vashem
July 12, 2024 by Simmy Allen
Yad Vashem hosts 150 educators from over 40 countries at the “Holocaust Education in a Global Context” International Conference
July 8, 2024 by Simmy Allen
Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Education convened its bi-annual International Educational Conference, drawing together 150 dedicated educators from 40 countries worldwide, including Melbourne’s Sonia Slonim. Read more
Abramovich partners with Yad Vashem
February 23, 2022 by Simmy Allen
Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem and Roman Abramovich announced today a new long-term strategic partnership aimed at strengthening Yad Vashem’s endeavours in the areas of Holocaust research and remembrance. Read more
The International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
January 24, 2022 by Simmy Allen
Yad Vashem will mark the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust through a range of events both in-person and online. Read more
US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides visits Yad Vashem
December 3, 2021 by Simmy Allen
The US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides and his son have visited Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem. Read more
Angela Merkel visits Yad Vashem
October 11, 2021 by Simmy Allen
Angela Merkel to visit Yad Vashem, her sixth visit
October 8, 2021 by Simmy Allen
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre on Sunday. Read more
Dani Dayan appointed as Chairman of Yad Vashem
August 23, 2021 by Simmy Allen
Yad Vashem mourns the passing of Sheldon G. Adelson
January 13, 2021 by Simmy Allen
Yad Vashem has joined leading Israelis in mourning the passing of the Patron of the Mount of Remembrance, Sheldon G. Adelson. Read more
Yad Vashem mourns one of their best
December 21, 2020 by Simmy Allen
Yad Vashem mourns the passing of Baruch Shub, a Holocaust survivor who served as a member of the Yad Vashem Directorate and of the Commission for the Designation of the Righteous Among the Nations. Read more
A Mission to Remember the Past
August 19, 2020 by Simmy Allen
Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, the Israeli Air Force, under the leadership of Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin, participated in a joint commemorative flypast mission together with the German Air Force over the skies of the notorious Dachau concentration camp. Read more
I Heard your Voices
April 22, 2020 by Simmy Allen
On Holocaust Martyrs ‘and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, special remembrance activities took place on IDF army bases across Israel. Read more
Worldwide name-reading campaign to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day
April 19, 2020 by Simmy Allen
To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day this year, when public gatherings have been banned in the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak worldwide, Yad Vashem invites the public to participate in an international campaign to record themselves reciting the names of Holocaust victims, and share the video on social media using the hashtags #RememberingFromHome #ShoahNames Read more
New online exhibition from Yad Vashem on the 80th anniversary of the beginning of WWII
August 30, 2019 by Simmy Allen
Yad Vashem will mark the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War by uploading a new exhibition featuring personal stories depicting Jewish family life in Europe in 1939. Read more
The 75th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and International Holocaust Remembrance Day
August 15, 2019 by Simmy Allen
Heads of State from Europe, North American and Australia have been invited to attend the Fifth World Holocaust Forum, taking place on 23 January 2020, at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Read more
Yad Vashem launches new online exhibition – “Last Letters from the Holocaust: 1944”
April 25, 2019 by Simmy Allen
On 13 April 1944, sisters Susan-Zsuzsa and Lili Klein wrote their father Hugo a short letter: “Dear Daddy, We are well – goodbye.” Read more
Pesach during the Holocaust
April 19, 2019 by Simmy Allen
The Pesach festival – which marks the Jewish people’s exodus from enslavement in ancient Egypt – was never more reminiscent in modern times as during the Holocaust. Read more
A new campus for Yad Vashem
March 31, 2019 by Simmy Allen
Yad Vashem is to build the new Shoah Heritage Campus which will house at its heart the new Shoah Heritage Collections Centre. Read more
Yom HaZikaron poster released by Yad Vashem
March 29, 2019 by Simmy Allen
Yad Vashem has been holding a competition to design the official poster for Holocaust Remembrance Day for over a decade…and has released this year’s winner. Read more
The death march to Volary
March 7, 2019 by Simmy Allen
Marking Women’s History Month, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem is promoting a moving online exhibition entitled The Death March to Volary, depicting the terrible fate of over 1,000 Jewish women who were forced on a horrific death march in the winter of 1945. Read more
Baby clothes made for hidden Jewish child during WWII donated to Yad Vashem
January 27, 2019 by Simmy Allen
Arie Reinhold has donated baby clothes made and worn by him during the Holocaust to Yad Vashem. Included in this mini-collection is a series of letters written by the Dutch women who hid and cared for him during the Holocaust. Read more
Yad Vashem and Facebook Israel announce joint Holocaust remembrance project
January 24, 2019 by Simmy Allen
Yad Vashem and Facebook Israel have joined together in a project to promote Holocaust commemoration on social media. Read more
