Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem

Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem As the Jewish people’s living memorial to the Holocaust, Yad Vashem safeguards the memory of the past and imparts its meaning for future generations.
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Yad Vashem: the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, is the ultimate source for Holocaust education, remembrance, documentation, and research. From the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem's approach incorporates meaningful educational initiatives, groundbreaking research, and inspirational exhibits. Our use of innovative technological platforms maximizes accessibility to the vast informat

ion in the Yad Vashem archival collections to an expanding global audience. Yad Vashem is at the forefront of the unceasing efforts to:
-Safeguard and impart the memory of the victims and the events of the Shoah period
-Document accurately one of this darkest of chapters in the history of humanity
-Grapple effectively with the ongoing challenges of keeping the Holocaust relevant today and for future generations.


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On 27 August 1942, the last public prayer service was held in Wiesbaden. From the 27th to the 29th of August 1942, 600 J...
27/08/2026

On 27 August 1942, the last public prayer service was held in Wiesbaden. From the 27th to the 29th of August 1942, 600 Jews, many of them elderly and weak, were rounded up in the courtyard of the Orthodox synagogue. On the 29th of August the Jews of Wiesbaden were deported to Frankfurt, where another 600 local Jews boarded the train. On the 1st of September the train left Frankfurt, and the following day it arrived in Theresienstadt. Later, these Jews were deported to Auschwitz. 32 Jews from this deportation survived the war.

In the ghettos and camps, amid extreme hunger, overcrowding and violence, mothers struggled to protect their children, t...
26/08/2026

In the ghettos and camps, amid extreme hunger, overcrowding and violence, mothers struggled to protect their children, to offer them warmth and a sense of safety in the face of relentless fear and threat.

Feiga Freitag and her five-year-old son Yaakov (Yankush) lived in the Lodz ghetto. In 1944 they were deported there to Auschwitz-Birkenau where they were murdered.

Learn about the difficulties and challenges of motherhood in the camps and ghettos: https://www.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/motherhood/ghettos-and-camps

Yair Noam (1922-2021). We Are Coming!, 1936 Watercolor on paper Yair (Manfred) Noam was born in 1922 in Coburg, Germany....
23/08/2026

Yair Noam (1922-2021). We Are Coming!, 1936
Watercolor on paper

Yair (Manfred) Noam was born in 1922 in Coburg, Germany. In 1928, in the wake of increasing antisemitism, the family moved to Berlin. In 1938, Yair immigrated to Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine). His brother Harry was sent on the Kindertransport to England. In 1941, his parents were deported to the Chelmno extermination camp, where they were murdered. Before emigrating from Germany, Yair created this drawing that depicts his dream of immigrating to Eretz Israel with his parents and brother.

Yad Vashem Art Collection, Moshal Repository
Gift of Gaby Dagani, Modiin

Toy boat sent from the Pithiviers camp to 10-year-old Jean Pojzman in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Jean, his mother Est...
21/08/2026

Toy boat sent from the Pithiviers camp to 10-year-old Jean Pojzman in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Jean, his mother Esther and sister Rachel were sent to the Drancy detention camp. On 21 August 1942, all three of them were deported to Auschwitz on Convoy #22, and murdered.

Holocaust survivor, photographer Arie Ben Menachem, 1947, Kibbutz Nitzanim, Erez Israel (Mandatory Palestine). From a co...
19/08/2026

Holocaust survivor, photographer Arie Ben Menachem, 1947, Kibbutz Nitzanim, Erez Israel (Mandatory Palestine). From a collection photographed by Arie Ben Menachem after his immigration to Mandatory Palestine and before the establishment of the State of Israel.

Arie Ben Menachem (Prinz) was born in Lodz in 1922. During the war he assisted photographer Mendel Grossman in his clandestine efforts to document life in the Lodz ghetto. They photographed scenes of daily life – people at work, hungry children, the abuse, the executions and the deportations - and Arie used some of the images to create a unique personal 18-page album. When the ghetto was liquidated, Arie ended up in concentration camps in Poland and Germany, and his album was smuggled away. Although he was unable to determine the fate of the original album, copies of the individual sheets, published in various books, reached him after the war, and he managed to reconstruct the entire work.

His extensive personal library contained thousands of books on the Holocaust in general, and on the Lodz ghetto in particular. He was always willing to share his library and his vast personal knowledge with researchers and students. With his friend Yosef Rav, he translated and annotated the Lodz Ghetto Chronicle (Yad Vashem, 1986-1989), a unique and highly important research source. He also helped prepare a book on the Righteous Among the Nations in Poland. Arie Ben Menachem passed away in July 2006.

First steps, First words Recorded in the hope that a family would be reunited. In the summer of 1942, when deportation o...
18/08/2026

First steps, First words
Recorded in the hope that a family would be reunited.

In the summer of 1942, when deportation orders started to be issued in the Netherlands, Eliyahu and Betty Pakter found a hiding place for their baby son with the help of the Dutch resistance. Abraham was just three months old when he was entrusted to Maria and Frans Pakker, a childless Dutch couple from the city of Almelo.

In order not to arouse suspicion, the Pakkers changed Abraham's name to Wim, and he grew up in their house as their biological son. Feeling Betty's pain at having to part from her son, Maria started to document Wim's progress in a notebook: his first steps, first words, childhood illnesses, in the hope that one day he would be returned to his parents and these pages would help bridge the gaps.

After the war, when Abraham was reunited with his parents who had survived in another hiding place, the Pakkers gave Eliyahu and Betty the diary. About one year before the liberation Maria and Frans had a child of their own, and while they had tried not to become too attached to Wim, the parting proved very challenging for Maria.

In 2009, Maria and Frans Pakker were recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.

During the Holocaust, women recognized as Righteous Among the Nations risked their lives to provide Jewish children with physical shelter, accompanied by warmth and maternal care. At the end of the war, Jewish women took orphaned children under their wing, serving as mother figures and guiding them through their physical and psychological rehabilitation.

Their stories are here: https://www.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/motherhood/adoptive-mothers

Yad Vashem Documents Archive
Moshal Repository, O.33/10683

17/08/2026

Today, more than ever, it is our responsibility to safeguard memory, bridge the gap between past and present, and continue to amplify the voices of those who refused to be silenced.

Yad Vashem invites educators from around the world to join the 12th International Conference for Holocaust Educators in Jerusalem for a unique professional journey:

🗣️ "Seeing the Voices" - Jewish Perspectives on Shoah Education Today

This conference explores how Jewish voices shape Holocaust education through diaries, archives, art and testimony, and why preserving them is essential in the face of rising antisemitism and historical distortion.

Inspired by the biblical verse, "And all the people saw the voices" (Exodus 20:15), the conference invites participants to reconsider how we teach, remember, and bear responsibility for Holocaust history today.

Why join us? This is a unique opportunity to connect with peers and experts worldwide, share best practices, and engage with new pedagogical approaches in a meaningful environment.

🗓 December 28–31, 2026
📍 Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

Scholarships available for eligible participants

🔗 Register now:
https://services.yadvashem.org/Runtime/Runtime/Form/SubmitRegistration/?EventCode=CN-2378

View the full program:
https://www.yadvashem.org/education/intl-conferences/2026.html

These harrowing photos taken by Mendel Grossman in August 1944 show Jews in Lodz ghetto prior to their deportation to Au...
16/08/2026

These harrowing photos taken by Mendel Grossman in August 1944 show Jews in Lodz ghetto prior to their deportation to Auschwitz.

The pictures are amongst the thousands of secret photographs taken by Grossman in the ghetto. He was deported to the Koenigs Wusterhausen labor camp and stayed there until 16 April 1945. Ill and exhausted, he was shot by N***s during a death march, still holding on to his camera.

"Displaying the authentic artifacts in a history museum, certainly in Yad Vashem, clearly has inestimable value. They ar...
13/08/2026

"Displaying the authentic artifacts in a history museum, certainly in Yad Vashem, clearly has inestimable value. They are the remnants of memory and evidence that allow the museum to show visitors the authentic story at its greatest intensity. Each item possesses its own human story. Each object is attributed, through credits, to the specific period and event. As the designer, I faced the plethora of objects that the staunch staff of Yad Vashem had collected over decades. My brief was to decide which ones would become part of the museum's story, and which would be returned to the storerooms. […] Throughout the whole process of assembling the exhibits, it was my arduous and frustrating task to sort and decide on the items."

- Dorit Harel, 'Facts and Feelings. Dilemmas in Designing the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum'

During the Holocaust period, Jewish mothers were brutally persecuted and forced to face a reality that negated their abi...
12/08/2026

During the Holocaust period, Jewish mothers were brutally persecuted and forced to face a reality that negated their ability to fulfil their maternal duties – to give birth, raise their children and protect them

The survival of the family during the Holocaust rested largely on the resilience of the mother, who was expected to conduct a dual battle: the daily struggle for basic requirements, including food and healthcare for her family, at the same time shouldering responsibility for the emotional wellbeing of her children.

In the most fateful moments, many women were forced to make the hardest decision of all: to part from their children in order to give them a chance of life. They searched for hiding places for the little children, and encouraged the older ones to go off into the unknown.

Explore the multifaceted experience of motherhood during the Holocaust in this new online exhibition: https://www.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/motherhood

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