Yad Vashem

Head of Anne Frank Educational Center questions Yad Vashem's Germany expansion, drawing backlash

The Israeli-born educator warned that Yad Vashem's planned branches in Germany could face controversy over the institution's ties to the Israeli government.

People view the exhibits at Yad Vashem on April 13, 2026.
Exterior view of the new Yad Vashem Education Center in Munich.

Yad Vashem chooses Germany for first overseas education centers

The presentation at the Begin Center was attended by researchers and representatives from multiple universities, embassies, and members of the Serbian community in Israel.

Collection of documents of Ustasha Atrocities presented at the Begin Center - opinion

A page in Calel Perechodnik’s original diary, which is now stored in Yad Vashem’s archives in Jerusalem.

'Am I a murderer?' Yad Vashem restores a Jewish ghetto policeman's Holocaust confession


Holocaust Remembrance Day: Observing with renewed urgency post-Oct. 7

Remembering, reflecting, and raising awareness: Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024 in the shadow of Oct. 7.

 View of Lublin Street in Chełm, Poland, pre-war. (Courtesy Yad Vashem, Source: ‘Chelm Yizkor Buch,’ published by the Chelmner Landsmannschaft in Yiddish, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1954)

Yad Vashem, Prison Service reveal Holocaust education for inmates

This joint Yad Vashem and Israel Prison Service initiative is part of a broader educational movement within the penal system.

 Inmates take part in program that teaches Holocaust education.

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Six stories of survival, resilience

The heart-wrenching Holocaust stories of Pnina Hefer, Allegra Gutta, Arie Eitani, Raisa Brodsky, Michael Bar-On, and Izi Kabilio.

 A SURVIVOR lights a torch at Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021.

Grapevine, May 2, 2024: Heroes and heroines

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Israeli soldiers look up at pictures of victims of the Holocaust at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial centre, ahead of the Holocaust Remembrance Day starting this evening, at the Hall of Names, in Jerusalem April 27, 2022.

UK officials cover London Holocaust memorial over vandalization fears

The Holocaust memorial in Hyde Park, London, was covered by officials in fear that it might be vandalized by pro-Palestinian protesters.

 A woman and a child stand next to the Holocaust memorial in Hyde Park, covered by a tarpaulin, on the day of a march in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in London, April 27, 2024.

Yad Vashem Chairman to Columbia president: 'The time has come for you to take a stand'

Dayan implored Dr. Shafik to “lead with moral principles, not only with administrative regulations. Speak up.”

 DANI DAYAN at Yad Vashem – caught in a cross fire.

President Herzog gifts Babylonian Talmud that survived the Holocaust to Yad Vashem

The Talmud had been entrusted to Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog in 1946, while he was recovering Jewish children hiding in non-Jewish homes and monastries.

Babylonian Talmud that survived the Holocaust gifted to Yad Vashem by President Herzog, April 17, 2024.

Grapevine March 31, 2024: An emotional visit

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

 YEHUDIT RAVITZ performs at the jubilee ceremony of the IDF Disabled Veterans Organization, in 2000, in Tel Aviv.

Handmade Purim noisemaker from Holocaust transit camp donated to Yad Vashem

The grogger belonged to the late Marcel Micenmacher, who survived the Holocaust with few other objects to serve as mementos from his parents, who were murdered at Auschwitz in 1942. 

 A Purim noisemaker, handmade by Kelman Micenmacher for his son Marcel in Nazi-occupied France in 1941. The grogger is now in the collection of Yad Vashem.

Grapevine March 14, 2024: All at sea

Movers and shakers of Israeli society.

 RA'ANANA MAYOR Chaim Broyde with Mindy Ajzner.