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Chairman of the
American Society for Yad
Vashem Eli Zborowski (center) laid a wreath
at the official Holocaust Remembrance Day
Ceremony together with American Society
Cultural Director
Dr. Elizabeth Mundlak
Zborowski (right) and Yad Vashem Builder
Mark Palmer (left).
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Two Yad Vashem exhibitions were recently
displayed in Los Angeles: “No Child’s Play” at
the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day in
Los Angeles’ Pan Pacific Park, sponsored by
Yad Vashem Guardian
Jona Goldrich (pictured
below), where thousands of people (including
many schoolchildren) viewed the exhibits; and
the “Auschwitz Album” exhibition at the local
Holocaust Museum.
Hundreds of guests participated at the
American Society for Yad Vashem’s reception for
the opening of the “Auschwitz Album” exhibition
on 27 January, including the museum’s
chairman,
Randol Schoenberg.
At the reception, and at the American
Society event at the end of March, participants
included Yad Vashem supporters
Susanne and
Jan Czuker, Vera and Paul Guerin and family,
Maria Herskovic and her daughter Suzanne,
Hanna and Bernie Rubinstein, Renee and Jack
Slomovic, Barbara Kort, Sam Delug, Mira
Becker, Steve Halaj, Gita and Jack Nagel and
Leo David.
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Yad Vashem mourns the recent passing of
a dear friend,
Edith Tessler, z”l. The youngest
survivor of a family of twelve, Edith's parents
and seven brothers and sisters were murdered
at Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Muhldorf, as
were her brother-in-law, nieces and nephew.
At 17, Edith was one of 25,000 Jewish women
liberated from Bergen-Belsen. After the war,
she recuperated in Sweden. Rudolph and Edith
Tessler were married in 1951. With Edith by his
side, Rudolph became a successful businessman.
As part of their commitment to Holocaust
education, the Tesslers generously supported
the development and publication of Years
Wherein We have Seen Evil, a four-volume
series published by Yad Vashem teaching the
Holocaust to the ultra-Orthodox community.
Yad Vashem expresses its sincerest
condolences to Rudolph, their children Florence,
David and Mordechai, their daughters- and son-
in-law and numerous grandchildren. May they
be comforted among the mourners of Zion.
CANADA
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Under the leadership of its new National
Chair
Fran Sonshine, the Canadian Society
for Yad Vashem held three annual Holocaust
Remembrance Day ceremonies at the national,
provincial and municipal levels:
Chaired by Canadian Society Board member
Dr. Joel Dimitry, the Canadian National
Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony
was held at the National War Museum in
Ottawa. Greetings from the Government of
Canada were delivered by
The Hon. Jason
Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration
and Multiculturalism.
Front: Cantor
Moshe Kraus recites Kaddish.
Behind, right to left:
H.E. Ambassador Miriam
Ziv, Canadian Society National Chair Fran
Sonshine, Dr. Joel Dimitry, The Hon. Jason
Kenney,
The Hon. Michael Ignatieff, Mr. Gilles
Duceppe, The Hon. Jack Layton
In a ceremony chaired by Canadian Society
Board Member
Hank Rosenbaum, 12 Holocaust
survivors were honored by Premier
Dalton
McGuinty for their contributions to the Province
of Ontario. The survivor’s biographies were read
by Minister of Immigration
The Hon. Michael
Chan and Monte Kwinter.
Pictured: Premier Dalton McGuinty poses
with local Israeli Consul General
Amir R. Gissin
and this year’s award recipients:
Fay Goldlist,
Elly Gotz, Pinchas Gutter, Peter Jablonski,
Frida Lebovici, Jack Mudryk, Zelda Rosenfeld,
Shoshana Rotenberg, Wolf Rotman, Helen
Sonshine, Ernst Weiss and Edith Weiss. Also
pictured: Hank Rosenbaum, Fran Sonshine and
Canadian Society Executive Director
Yaron
Ashkenazi.
The Toronto citywide Holocaust
Remembrance Day Memorial Ceremony was
co-chaired by Canadian Society Vice-Chair
Lou Greenbaum and Joyce Rifkind of the
Holocaust Centre of Toronto, UJA Federation.
Consul General of Israel to Toronto
Amir
R. Gissin presented a Righteous Among the
Nations certificate to
Catharina Develing
(center), posthumously honoring her mother
for saving the life of
John Sanders, who now
lives in Toronto.
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The UIA Canada’s Prime Minster’s Mission
came to Yad Vashem for a moving visit in
May.
Friends Worldwide
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friends worldwide
UK
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Philip Gee and his wife Nicola toured Yad
Vashem with their children in April. The family
is pictured here next to a plaque honoring
the
Archie Sherman Charitable Foundation,
headed by Philip’s father,
Michael Gee, for
supporting the building of the Holocaust History
Museum.
AUSTRALIA
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Australian Holocaust survivors
Joseph and
Helen Fröhlich West lay a memorial wreath
at Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance
Day, with their daughter
Tonia Komisarov
and granddaughters
Lana Tavor and Renee
Maoz.
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Australian guests at the official Holocaust
Remembrance Day Opening Ceremony at Yad
Vashem included (left to right):
Gary Zamel
of Sydney; Director of Yad Vashem’s English
Desk
David Metzler; Executive Director, Israel-
Australia Chamber of Commerce
Paul Israel;
Norman Schueler of Adelaide; South Australian
Minister for Environment and Minister for
Aboriginal Affairs
The Hon. Jay Weatherill
MP; and Shlomo Werdiger of Melbourne.
FRANCE
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Yad Vashem had the privilege of hosting
many friends from France and Belgium at the
Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremonies.
Left to right:
Andre Benichou, Yad Vashem
Benefactor
Maxi Librati, Dov Luski, Director
of the French, Benelux and Italian Desk
Miry
Gross, Yad Vashem Builders Renee and Josef-
Chaim Kaufman
GERMANY
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Holocaust Survivor and Yad Vashem
Benefactor
Rose Landschaft laid a wreath at the
official Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony
at Yad Vashem.
SWEDEN
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Georg and Elisabeth Citrom represented
Sweden at the Holocaust Remembrance Day
opening ceremony and daytime events at Yad
Vashem.
AUSTRIA
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Longtime Friend of Yad Vashem
Fini
Steindling (left) participated in the visit of Pope
Benedict XVI. She was accompanied by
Miry
Gross (right), Director of the French, Benelux
and Italian Desk.
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Yad Vashem’s Travelling Exhibition “Spots
of Light – To be a Woman in the Holocaust”
opened in a festive ceremony in Vienna on 31
March 2009, in the presence of distinguished
guests from the Austrian public and Vienna’s
Jewish community. Pictured: Director of Yad
Vashem’s Museums Division
Yehudit Inbar (left)
and Director of the Switzerland and German-
speaking Countries Desk
Arik Rav-On (right),
in front of the exhibition.
Christian Desk
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Executive
Director of the International Christian Embassy
Jerusalem (ICEJ)
Malcolm Hedding and Director
of the Christian Friends of Yad Vashem
Dr.
Susanna Kokkonen laid a wreath on behalf
of Yad Vashem’s many Christian Friends
worldwide.
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Christian broadcaster and former presidential
advisor
Earl Cox brought a delegation of
distinguished guests from the United States to
the Holocaust Remembrance Day events at Yad
Vashem, where he laid a wreath on behalf of
his organization “Israel Always.”
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TV personality and popular program host
Raul De Molina from Miami visited Yad Vashem
in April as a guest of the
American Society for
Yad Vashem. Pictured in front of the Donors’
Wall, left to right: Director of the Christian
Friends of Yad Vashem
Dr. Susanna Kokkonen;
Mr. and Mrs.
Raul de Molina and their daughter;
Mr. Henry de Arcos; American Society Director
of Development
Shraga Mekel
VENEZUELA
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Paulina Gamus, Amram Cohen and
Jaime Parente toured the Yad Vashem campus
accompanied by
Perla Hazan, Director of the
Iberoamerican, Spanish and Portuguese Desk
(left).
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Yad Vashem Benefactors
Nira and Jaime
Meir Strasberg (center) and Ada and Nathan
Moskowitz (center, standing) paid their respects
at this year’s official Opening Ceremony for
Holocaust Remembrance Day. They were
accompanied by Director of the Iberoamerican,
Spanish and Portuguese Desk
Perla Hazan (left)
and
Mauricio Hazan (right).
MEXICO
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Masha and Victor Cohen came with their family
for an unveiling ceremony in their honor at the
Square of Hope, and to celebrate the bar mitzvah
of their grandson,
Simon Hoffman Cohen.
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Orly Beigel (left) was accompanied by
Director of the Iberoamerican, Spanish and
Portuguese Desk
Perla Hazan (right) during
her visit to Yad Vashem.
CHILE
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At this year’s Holocaust Remembrance
Day ceremony held by the
Chilean Society
for Yad Vashem, Director General of the
Chilean Investigative Police
Arturo Herrera
was presented with the key to Yad Vashem.
Left to right: Arturo Herrera, Chilean Society
President
David Feuertsein, Gabriel Zaliasnik,
David Cohen
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Susy and Selik Wengrowsky attended
the official Opening Ceremony for Holocaust
Remembrance Day, accompanied by Director
of the Iberoamerican, Spanish and Portuguese
Desk
Perla Hazan (left) .
Yad Vashem Needs Your Support!
In these difficult times of financial uncertainty
and a worrying rise in antisemitism around the
world, Yad Vashem is redoubling its efforts to
commemorate the Holocaust, disseminate its
universal implications and strengthen Jewish
continuity. Yad Vashem is deeply grateful for
your generosity in supporting its vital work,
and welcomes both new friends and established
supporters as partners in our shared mission.
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To make tax deductible donations:
USA: American Society for Yad Vashem
500 Fifth Avenue, 42nd Floor
New York, NY 10110
Tel: 1-800-310-7495 or 1-212-220-4304
CANADA: Canadian Society for Yad Vashem
970 Lawrence Avenue West, Suite 211
Toronto, ONT M6A 3B6
Tel:1-416-785-1333
UK: British Friends of Yad Vashem
6 Bloomsbury Square
London, WC1A 2LP
Tel: 020-7543-5402
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For information on societies in other
countries, or to donate online, please visit:
www.yadvashem.org and click on “Donate
Now.”
Donations may also be sent to:
International Relations Division, Yad Vashem,
PO Box 3477, Jerusalem 91034, Israel.
Yad Vashem
The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’
Remembrance Authority
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Yad Vashem Jerusalem Magazine
P.O. Box 3477, Jerusalem 91034, Israel
Tel:
972-2-6443413, Fax: 972-2-6443409
yv.magazine@yadvashem.org.il
www.yadvashem.org
Camp Synagogue: Replica of Felix Nussbaum’s Artwork Presented to the Pope (p. 5)
Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944), Camp Synagogue, St. Cyprien, 1941
Oil on plywood. Collection of the Yad Vashem Museum of Holocaust Art
Gift of Paul and Hilda Freund, Jerusalem
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