Holocaust
A 50-year-old director doesn’t shy away from asking tough questions in this documentary that interviews aged individuals who as children met Adolf Hitler and how it affected their lives.
$5 million have been earmarked for the center’s construction in Nof HaGalil. Once open, it will operate as a museum by a permanent staff trained by Yad Vashem.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says “even the most difficult wars today are not the Holocaust and are not comparable to the Holocaust.”
Timed to coincide with Yom Hashoah—the day all of Israel stops to remember the Holocaust—“Before My Very Eyes,” the Yad Vashem Educational Center for Holocaust Remembrance, is opening at the Ariel Sharon Israel Defense Forces’ training campus in the Negev Desert.
“It is our job to ensure that their voice and their memory never dies out,” says Shmuel Rosenman, chairman of March of the Living.
Maritza Shelley will speak of her experiences on a death march and hiding in Nazi-occupied Budapest.
Approximately one-third of all Holocaust survivors in the United States live in poverty.
The campaign aims to raise Holocaust awareness and to put a spotlight on rising anti-Semitism.
A report released by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day shows that while only 3% of Jews lived in Israel in 1939, 45% live in the Jewish state today.
“The story of the Holocaust is relevant to every IDF soldier and officer,” said Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi.
The digital gathering is geared to address Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism worldwide.
A cornerstone of the museum will be the inclusion of the “Dimensions in Testimony” program.
