“We share a commitment to throw light on the still obscured shadows of the Holocaust.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
“We share a commitment to throw light on the still obscured shadows of the Holocaust.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
Ran Yaakoby (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) – Head of Delegation
Avner Shalev (Yad Vashem) – Head of Delegation
Daniel Agranov (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Richelle Budd-Caplan (Yad Vashem) – Education Working Group
Haim Gertner (Yad Vashem) – Communication Working Group
Yossi Gevir (Yad Vashem) - Memorials and Museums Working Group
Shulamit Imber (Yad Vashem)
Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is Israel's official commemoration for the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust. It will be held on 2 May this year.
The International Poster Competition is a joint project between Yad Vashem in cooperation with Memorial de la Shoah, France, and the European Shoah Legacy Institute, Czech Republic.
On September 8, 2011, a unique concert featuring the stirring words of Holocaust survivors, performed by the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra - IBA, soloists and choirs from Israel and the United States, and conducted by Gil Shohat will take place at Yad Vashem.
Professor Dina Porat has been appointed Chief Historian of Yad Vashem and will assume her duties on October 1, 2011.
The European Commission and Israel organized the 5th Seminar on the Fight Against Racism, Xenophobia and Antisemitism in Brussels on 26 October.