Special Lecture: From 2-Inch to YouTube: The Audiovisual Documentation and Broadcast of the Eichmann Trial
The trial of Adolf Eichmann riveted the attention of the Israeli public and aroused great interest the world over. This was the first time that the Holocaust was presented in all its details to a competent judicial body. Journalists from numerous countries converged upon Jerusalem to cover the trial – which gave rise to discussions on legal, social, educational, psychological, religious, and political levels – and international public opinion followed its course with rapt interest. Liat Benhabib, Director of the Yad Vashem Visual Center, will discuss the audiovisual documentation from this epic trial, including what was recorded and how, and what was preserved for future generations. Join us on Zoom, Sunday, 25 July 2021 at 8:00 PM Israel Time, 6:00 PM UK, 1:00 PM EDT. Register here.
Stained-Glass Windows from the Holocaust Now on Display
A set of colorful stained-glass windows, decorated with traditional symbols of the Jewish New Year, were recently installed in the Yad Vashem Synagogue, on either side of the central Torah Ark. The windows, which once adorned the synagogue in Assen, the Netherlands, reflect the unusual talent of Abraham van Oosten, the Jewish architect who designed them. They relate the tragic fate of his family as well as the Jewish community of Assen during WWII. Most of the Jews of Assen did not survive the Holocaust; a few returned, but they were not able to reestablish Jewish communal life and the synagogue was never reopened. The windows were donated to Yad Vashem five years ago by van Oosten’s daughter. Read more about these beautiful “Remnants of the Jewish World Destroyed by the Holocaust”.
From Yad Vashem Publications: Standing up to Evil: A Zionist’s Underground Rescue Activities in Hungary
Born in 1916 in Holič, Slovakia, Peretz Révész was forced to abandon his medical studies with the onset of the anti-Jewish policy in the country in 1938. After joining the Zionist youth movement Gordonia–Hamaccabi Hatza’ir, he became one of its leaders in 1941, engaging in smuggling members of his movement to neighboring Hungary, where the Jews still enjoyed most civil rights, and playing a significant role in the rescue activities.
Standing Up to Evil is an authentic and fascinating memoir that describes the author’s many valiant rescue activities and his undaunted efforts to advance this objective with prominent Jewish and non-Jewish figures. It also offers another perspective on the “Kasztner Affair” and the contacts with SS officials and German counterintelligence, providing an invaluable account of the Holocaust in Hungary. Available for purchase in our online store.
