Online Exhibition – Marking the New Year
The holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are traditionally a time for introspection and praying for a healthy and happy year to come. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is a time of prayer, and family gatherings while Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is a day of fasting, reflection and repentance. The online exhibition “Marking the New Year” uses testimonies, artifacts, photos, greeting cards and prayer books from Yad Vashem’s collections to explore some of the ways that Jews marked these special days before, during and immediately after the Holocaust.
Questions We Wanted to Ask: The Deportation from Home
“Questions We Wanted to Ask” is a YouTube series by Yad Vashem presenting short interviews with Holocaust survivors on various topics. In this episode, survivors address questions regarding the deportations: How did they find out about the deportation? How did they prepare for the deportation? Did they know where they were being sent? Hear four survivors, children at the time these events occurred, as they recall this traumatic time their lives.
The Yad Vashem Story Chapter 2: Establishing Yad Vashem in the Jewish Homeland
At the end of WWII, when the extent of the mass murders that were the lot of the Jews in Europe and North Africa were revealed, Mordechai Shenhavi once again raised the idea of a national institution to commemorate the Holocaust in Israel. On 25 May 1945, Shenhavi published his proposal for the “Yad Vashem Memorial for Destroyed Diaspora Jewry” in the Devar newspaper. Read more about the lead-up to the proposal and passing the Yad Vashem Law in the Israeli Knesset and the establishment of the fledgling institution that was to become the World Holocaust Remembrance Center.
