Topic: Yad Vashem

Jews honour Muslim rescuers

Calgary's Jewish community is honouring Muslims who rescued Jews during the Holocaust.. In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance...

Calgary Jewish community honours Muslim rescuers

Calgary's Jewish community is honouring Muslims who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day ...

Adelsons donate another $5m. to Gingrich

Donation brings casino tycoon and Israeli newspaper owner's contributions to Republican candidate to $10m. in two months. Dr. Miriam Adelson, the...
From The Jewish Daily Forward Yad Vashem, Israel's center for Holocaust research, has opened an investigation into revoking the title of “Righteous...

Jerusalem fire under control

Israeli firefighters brought a forest fire in Jerusalem under control on Sunday after the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum was evacuated as a precaution, a police spokesman said."The fire has been brought totally under control but the fire service is continuing to ...

Israel forest fire forces Holocaust memorial evacuation

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A forest fire in Jerusalem forced the evacuation of visitors and workers from the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial on Sunday as firefighters battled to bring the blaze under control, a police spokesman said.Two Yad Vashem maintenance workers were evacuated ...
West Bank Palestinians are building a wealthier, more peaceful society. But on the issue that has defined Israel since its creation — religious...

Ageing survivors give up precious Holocaust relics

ASHKELON, Israel (Reuters) - For 80-year-old David Ariel, a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, parting with cherished letters from his mother, killed at Auschwitz death camp, was a painful but necessary duty.Ariel and thousands of other elderly Israeli survivors answered a call ...

Yad Vashem, Google to put Holocaust photos on Web

Israel's Yad Vashem museum and Google have teamed up to put the world's largest collection of Holocaust documents onto the Internet, they said on Wednesday.In the first stage of the project some "130,000 photos from Yad Vashem's ...

2011 Resolutions: Taking Back Control

Warning: this post doesn't have much to do with travel. As with all resolution posts, it's going to border on self-indulgent. But as 2010 came to...