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Yad
Vashem In Jerusalem, Israel Marks Holocaust Martyrs', Heroes'
Remembrance Day, May 1-2 By Joel Leyden Jerusalem, Israel ---- May 1, 2011 ...... Part of the following was communicated by Yad Vashem and the Israel Prime Minister's Office to the Israel News Agency. Yad Veshem in Jerusalem, Israel which serves as the Jewish people’s living memorial to the Holocaust, safeguards the memory of the past and imparts its meaning for future generations. Established in 1953 in Jerusalem, Israel, as the world center for documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust, Yad Vashem is today a dynamic and vital place of intergenerational and international encounter. For over half a century, Yad Vashem has been committed to four pillars of remembrance: commemoration, documentation, research and education. The central theme for which Yad Veshem advocates for this year's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day is Fragments of Memory: The Faces Behind the Documents, Artifacts and Photographs. The official Opening Ceremony for Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day will take place today, May 1, 2011 at 20:00, in Warsaw Ghetto Square, Yad Vashem, Mount of Remembrance, Jerusalem. Israel President Shimon Peres and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak. Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate will light the Memorial Torch. Michael (Mickey) Goldman-Gilad will speak on behalf of the Holocaust survivors.
During the ceremony, Holocaust survivors will light six torches. The first torch will be lit by Simcha Applebaum, second torch will be lit by Dina B'chler-Chen; the third torch will be lit by Andrei C?l?ra?u, the fourth torch: Yona (Janek) Fuchs, fifth torch: Chava Pressburger; sixth torch will be lit by Avraham Aviel. During the Holocaust Memorial ceremony, short videos of the torchlighters' testimonies will be shown. The traditional Jewish memorial service will take place during the ceremony. The Rishon Lezion Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Shlomo Amar will recite Psalms. The Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yona Metzger will recite Kaddish. El Ma'aleh Rahamim, a Jewish prayer for the souls of the martyrs, will be recited by IDF Chief Cantor Lt. Col. Shai Abramson. Participants in the ceremony include singer Yehudit Ravitz and violinists of the Keshet Eilon Music Center, as well as the Israel Defense Forces Paratroopers' Honor Guard. The Holocaust ceremony will be broadcast live on Israel television on Channels 1, 2, 10 and 33, and channel 9 in Russian, and by radio on Kol Israel and Galei Zahal. It will last about one hour and a quarter. At 22:00 a special radio program on "Gathering the Fragments" will air on Israel Army Radio - Galei Zahal. Yad Vashem will be closed to the public as of 12 noon on May 1. It will re-open on Monday, May 2, at 8:00 a.m. Yad Vashem has launched a new campaign, "Gathering the Fragments" in an effort to rescue Holocaust-related documents, artifacts, photographs and art. A special collection stand for people who would like to donate Holocaust-related material will be set up near Warsaw Ghetto Square at Yad Vashem and will operate from 11:00 on May 2. To donate material to the Yad Vashem Memorial Center in Jerusalem, call in Israel 1-800-25-7777. Information about Holocaust Remembrance Day, as well as online exhibits, educational materials, video testimonies, forms for people to submit names for reading in the Hall of Remembrance on Holocaust Remembrance Day, and more is available at www.yadvashem.org. To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem will launch an online social media event on its Facebook page called the "I Remember" Wall event. By attending the online event, your name and Facebook profile picture will automatically be connected to the name and photo of a Holocaust victim on the "I Remember Wall". The event will be open through May 3, 2011. Israel has
launched a commission to track down property taken from Holocaust
victims from across Europe and receive compensation for wartime
losses. Throughout the world, Jews from London, New York, Hartford and Paris to Tel Aviv, Montreal, Los Angeles and Toyko are marking Holocaust Memorial Day. The Leyden Communications Digital PR Group has launched an intiative named Project Remember to connect Israel children with children in the US in real time using Skype to discuss the Holocaust. Project Remember is seeking sponsors to expand this children's Holocaust educational awareness program outside the New York, Hartford area.
Israel's Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, is teaming up with Google to make its photographs and documents interactive and searchable on the Internet. The first 130,000 photos are now on the Internet. Although much of Yad Vashem's archive was already available through its formidable website, the new project enables users to search keywords and data just like a Google search. A social network component allows viewers to contribute to the project by adding their own stories, comments and documents about family members who appear in the online archives. The project started three years ago in the Tel Aviv, Israel skyscraper that houses Google research operations in Israel. It was inspired by a Google initiative encouraging employees to spend 20 percent of work time on projects they feel are important. Google used experimental optical character recognition technology to make text within documents and photos searchable in multiple languages.
Iran,
which denies the existance of the Holocaust, created a Holocaust
cartoon contest a few years ago. This
is the Jewish response to cartoons from Iran. Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warned that Iran is arming
itself for the destruction of the Jewish state. At the weekly
Cabinet meeting today in Jerusalem Israel Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu made the following remarks:
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