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    Yad Vashem (Hebrew: יָד וַשֵׁם; lit. 'a memorial and a name') is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving...
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    (Hebrew: חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם ḥasidei ummot ha'olam) is a title used by Yad Vashem to describe people who, for various reasons, made an effort to assist...
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    "Kleinicke, Helmut". Yad Vashem. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2023. "Walz, Hans". Yad Vashem. Archived from the original...
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    1953, Israel's Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, has recognized 26,973 people as Righteous among the Nations. Yad Vashem's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance...
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  • "Italy". Yad Vashem. For France, "France". Yad Vashem. For Belgium, "Belgium". Yad Vashem. For Netherlands, "The Netherlands". Yad Vashem. "Jewish losses...
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    during World War II. She was honored as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem for risking her life to save twelve Jews. Irena Gut was born into a Catholic...
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  • Polonia Restituta. In June 2009, Hosenfeld was posthumously recognized by Yad Vashem (Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust) as one of...
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    prominent Righteous Among the Nations per country of origin, recognized by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem...
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    Australia, the United Kingdom and Israel. In 1963 the Israeli agency Yad Vashem designated Wallenberg one of the Righteous Among the Nations. Numerous...
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    Nazis. She was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Israel's Yad Vashem in 1994. She was born in the village of Maletín in Czechoslovakia, to...
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    founder of modern Zionism. Herzl's tomb lies at the top of the hill. Yad Vashem, which commemorates the Holocaust, lies to the west of Mt. Herzl. Israel's...
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    Remembrance Day 2022, on the Yad Vashem website Transports to Extinction: The Holocaust Deportation Database on the Yad Vashem website Video of deportation...
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    the Righteous Among the Nations in 2013, with his name being listed at Yad Vashem in the city of Jerusalem. Born in Sudan, he moved to Berlin to study medicine...
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  • Nazi racial ideology was also used to persecute other minorities. The Yad Vashem museum has created, in an ongoing collaboration with many partners, a...
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    town, at least 450 Jewish men, women and children, were killed.[p.72] Yad Vashem (2016). "Goering orders Heydrich to prepare the plan for the Final Solution...
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    the original on 17 May 2008. Retrieved 20 May 2008. Yad Vashem (2004). "Kristallnacht". Yad Vashem's Photo Archives. The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes'...
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    symbol of pride". However, this decision was immediately condemned by Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan, calling it a "[disgrace to] the victims of the Holocaust...
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    "Righteous Among the Nations" by Israel's Holocaust memorial institution, Yad Vashem. After the war, she stayed in Greece and founded a Greek Orthodox nursing...
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    Holocaust, he was named among the Righteous Among the Nations distinction by Yad Vashem. After the occupation ended, Damaskinos was proclaimed regent of Greece...
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    saying: "Here slept Saint Giuseppe Girotti". On 14 February 1995, the Yad Vashem organization declared Giuseppe Girotti to be Righteous Among the Nations...
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    several weeks later. In 1985 the Israeli Holocaust remembrance center, Yad Vashem, honoured Père Jacques as one of the Righteous Among the Nations for his...
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    Righteous Among the Nations, over a quarter of the 28,217 recognized by Yad Vashem in total. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z...
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    Rosen, Alan (2014). "Tracking Jewish time in Auschwitz". Yad Vashem Studies. 42 (2). Yad Vashem: 11–46. OCLC 1029349665. Snyder, Timothy (2010). Bloodlands:...
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    800,000 people were murdered at Treblinka; Israel's Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem, puts the number at 870,000; and the United States Holocaust Memorial...
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    larger Yad Vashem complex located on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem. Along with some two dozen different structures within the Yad Vashem memorial...
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    contacting Juliusz Kühl. It is not known who filled out this document. 1957 Yad Vashem's study suggests there were more passports – in particular in 1941 during...
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    at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; as well as a performance by The Zamir Chorale of Boston; and a lecture by Professor Yehuda Bauer, academic advisor to Yad Vashem...
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    States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Yad Vashem (2005). "July 25: Pogrom in Lwów". Chronology of the Holocaust. Yad Vashem. Archived from the original on 11...
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    Jewish soldiers his father saved, who provided witness statements to Yad Vashem. Among the Jewish-American POW servicemen who were saved was Sonny Fox...
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    The Monument to the children in Yad Vashem is located at Yad Vashem, Israel. It was erected in 1987 in remembrance of children killed during the reign...
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