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World center for Holocaust research, documentation, education and commemoration. A dynamic place of inter-generational and international encounter.
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Did you notice today's #GoogleDoodle ?
Pictured is Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who defied orders from his government & issued thousands of transit-visas to Jews in Lithuania ow.ly/ZX4d50veMkg
YV recognized him as Righteous Among the Nations in 1984.
@GoogleDoodles pic.twitter.com/e1wuo5SDAZ
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Last Letter, #OTD 28 July 1943
"Lots of kisses from your mother"
Discover Berta Joschkowitz's letter to her daughter Rosi just before the liquidation of the Bedzin ghetto ow.ly/gfRl50uF0sN pic.twitter.com/MgpG301gyD
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#ArtifactOfTheWeek
In July 1942, Esther Frenkel was arrested, along with her 2-year-old son, Richard.
Esther’s shirt remained in her Paris flat. It is pictured below, along with a photo of her wearing it.
Esther & Richard were deported separately to #Auschwitz & murdered. pic.twitter.com/D05IW80Ptz
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#SaturdayNightArt
Karl Robert Bodek & Kurt Conrad Löw often worked together on art pieces, signing their works jointly.
The watercolor below "One Spring" depicts the Gurs camp.
Learn more here ow.ly/1KL650vbboe pic.twitter.com/XNqNKXI0bQ
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#PhotoFriday
After the war, Allied forces established DP Camps in the Allied-occupied zones throughout Europe.
YV's online exhibition explores various topics related to the return to life in the DP Camps ow.ly/d8lM50vbbGs
Pictured below are survivors in the DP Camps. pic.twitter.com/Ovvb6NKMp1
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A Nazi's heroic stand against the SS
#OTD 26 July 1942 Nazi officer, Albert Battel, ordered the only access to the Jewish ghetto in Przemysl be blocked from the SS effort to liquidate the ghetto.
Read the story & discover the fate of Przemysl's Jews here ow.ly/btzz50vbfH7 pic.twitter.com/SqBc0T90GE
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#ShoahStory — "The Warsaw Ghetto after the Great Deportation"
Survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising describe the atmosphere in the Warsaw Ghetto following the Great Deportation of the summer of 1942 (July).
youtu.be/85OIE0EVvFg
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The Children's Memorial is a unique #memorial to the approximately 1.5 million #Jewish children who were murdered during the #Holocaust.
Walking through, visitors hear the names of murdered #children, their ages, and countries of origin.
See more here youtu.be/BsJqKdN9B3A
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#VideoWednesday
In late July 1942, The Great Deportation from the Warsaw ghetto began.
View #Holocaust survivor testimonies below as they describe the horrific conditions of the deportations youtu.be/jaNlJgzRYn0
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#OTD 24 July 1937 Heinz Wolfgang Finke celebrated his bar mitzvah, pictured below.
This synagogue was one of many torched and destroyed during the Kristallnacht pogrom in November, 1938.
Learn more about the Finke family here ow.ly/vrjr50v7zAZ pic.twitter.com/NpbsZvS4ZH
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In defiance of Nazi orders, Adam Czerniakow (chairman of the Warsaw ghetto Judenrat) refused to prepare the lists of persons slated for deportation.
Instead, he committed suicide #OTD 23 July 1942.
Learn more about the Warsaw ghetto ow.ly/n1jj50v73jq pic.twitter.com/YcXcnJXcOn
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Last Letter, July 1942 ow.ly/eVXD50v7355
"When we are on the train and know our destination, we will let you know, if we can."
Berta Keller-Moses wrote these last words to her 2 children on her way to Terezin. In January 1943 she was murdered in #Auschwitz. pic.twitter.com/uwB0Gm3IDl
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“The Pisar Family share in our conviction that education can create a better future” - Dr. Eyal Kaminka, Director of @yadvashemschool, at today’s meaningful ceremony dedicating the Pisar Holocaust Studies Program for Educators at @yadvashem
Learn more: yadvashem.org/education/inte… pic.twitter.com/O91SYXn5EN
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#MuseumMonday
Gallery 2 in YV's Holocaust #History #Museum contains detailed historical and visual information about Jewish badges during the #Holocaust.
YV's website also features the distinctive Jewish badges during the Holocaust here ow.ly/ZIuN50v70Ja pic.twitter.com/MJuajtWa31
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#OTD 22 July 1942 — The Great Deportation began
Between July 22- September 21, more than 265,000 Jews had been deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka death camp and murdered.
Learn about the final moments in the Warsaw ghetto here ow.ly/rfEp50v70OK pic.twitter.com/a7LLUiAicV
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#ArtifactOfTheWeek
In July 1942, 15-month-old Rose Brand fell ill and died on the journey to Eretz Israel. She was buried along the way.
Her mother sketched the grave to remember it forever. The card is pictured below.
Learn about the Brand family here ow.ly/jocy50v6YAv pic.twitter.com/lBpsgu2qRK
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Felix Nussbaum was murdered in Auschwitz on 9 August 1944.
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#SaturdayNightArt
#OTD 20 July 1944, artist Felix Nussbaum was arrested in his hideout and sent to Mechelen camp.
The inability to move freely led Nussbaum to paint a number of views while in hiding, perhaps to compensate for his lack of freedom ow.ly/qyMy50v4KnE pic.twitter.com/K00SZysxlw
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#PhotoFriday
Pictured below the Horonczyk family, who moved from Poland to Paris before #WW2 with hopes of a better life.
However, during the #Holocaust they faced destruction beyond their imagination. YV's online exhibition tells their tragic story ow.ly/7TJi50v4J9j pic.twitter.com/EeCGEuxIVi
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#ShoahStory
This week marked 77 years since the Vel' d'Hov Roundup in Paris, July 1942.
Over 11,000 Jews were arrested & confined to the Vel’ d’Hiv Stadium. Most were then deported to Auschwitz.
View #Holocaust survivor testimony about the roundup here
youtu.be/dRN15hAspJE
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