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Yad Vashem

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Yad Vashem

@yadvashem

World center for Holocaust research, documentation, education and commemoration. A dynamic place of inter-generational and international encounter.

Jerusalem, Israel

Joined April 2009

Yad Vashem
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Jun 19, 2019
.@AOC Concentration camps assured a slave labor supply to help in the Nazi war effort, even as the brutality of life inside the camps helped assure the ultimate goal of "extermination through labor." Learn about concentration camps ow.ly/LtnX50uHJL2 #Holocaust #History
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Jan 6, 2023
Righteous Among the Nations Maria Kotarba worked as a courier with the Polish resistance before she was caught and deported to Auschwitz #OTD 6 January 1943; there she risked her life to smuggle medicines & food to Jewish prisoners Learn more: ow.ly/Tq5B50MfZLQ
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May 24, 2023
"Dear Daddy – we are well – goodbye" ow.ly/h0C350J4Ztj Sisters Suzan and Lili wrote these words in the last postcard that they sent to their father, Hugó Klein They were deported to Auschwitz #OTD 24 May 1944
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May 28, 2023
Karel & Amalia Hamerslag were murdered in Sobibor #OTD 28 May 1943 Their children – Mirjam and Henri – were rescued by the Dutch underground Read the rescue story: ow.ly/aVxv50OqOqE
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Oct 16, 2022
#OTD 16 October 1941 A mother and her children before their execution in Lubny, Ukraine; 4,500 Jews from the area were murdered that day Learn more about the beginning of the Final Solution: ow.ly/i2iZ50L6G2e
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Apr 15, 2023
Judith and the rest of her family were sent to Bergen-Belsen. For hours, they stood in formation, day after day, in the snow and the bitter cold. Judith Sohlberg survived the Holocaust. Next week she will light a torch at Yad Vashem. Read her story: ow.ly/amUi50NIK8N
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Jul 31, 2022
"In another week it will be your birthday. How I long to be with you, to kiss you and play with you…" These were Léo Cohn's last words to his 4-year-old son Ariel #OTD 31 July 1944, Léo Cohn was deported on the last transport leaving Drancy for Auschwitz ow.ly/OSaM50K124a
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Dec 18, 2022
The Jewish holiday of #Hanukkah starts tonight Explore our online exhibit "Hanukkah: The Festival of Lights Before, During & After the Holocaust", which shares ways this holiday was observed throughout Europe through photos, artifacts & personal testimony ow.ly/5PHy50LQSc3
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Jul 10, 2025
Yad Vashem is profoundly shocked and deeply concerned by the desecration of historical truth and memory at the Jedwabne memorial site in Poland, where new plaques were recently installed in an apparent attempt to distort the story of the massacre of Jews. On 10 July 1941, amid
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Sep 9, 2022
#OTD 9 September 1943, German forces landed in Zakinthos Refusing Nazi orders to prepare a list of local Jews, Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Dimitrios Chrysostomos wrote his own name down and said: "Here is the list of Jews you require" Learn more here: ow.ly/77lN50KtTtW
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Feb 28, 2025
#PhotoFriday In this photo, taken in February 1944, five-year-old Avraham Rosenthal (right) stands next to his two-year-old brother, Emanuel, in the Kovno Ghetto. Emanuel was born in the ghetto—a place where almost no children were born, as the Nazis had declared pregnancy
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Jan 9, 2023
Righteous Among the Nations Karolina Juszczykowska was executed #OTD 9 January 1945 for hiding two Jews in her home. The story of her life and of her hiding Jews was found in the police and trial records – no one survived to testify. This is her story: ow.ly/NqLN50Mg02w
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Oct 20, 2022
Irena Sendler risked her life to rescue Jewish children; she was arrested #OTD 20 October 1943 The exact number of children saved by #IrenaSendler and her partners is unknown Learn more: ow.ly/espz50L6SGH
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Apr 16, 2023
Efim hid in a bunker for 9 months. He sat in almost complete darkness, distinguishing between day & night only by the faint light from a small airhole. Efim Gimelshtein survived the Holocaust. Tomorrow he will light a torch at Yad Vashem. Read his story: bit.ly/3KHF64Z