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Yad Vashem Events 2012

Memorial service in the Hall of Remembrance, 1 November 2012. Left to right - rescuers's grandchildren, survivor and ambassadors of Belgium and Spain

Ceremony Posthumously Honoring Joseph and Louise Materne of Belgium, as Righteous Among the Nations.

01/11/2012
Jacky Offen of the Commission for the Designation of the Righteous presents Olivier de Menthon with the certificate and medal in honor of his grandfather, Henry de Menthon, Yad Vashem, 5 September 2012

Yad Vashem Posthumously Honors Count Henry de Menthon as Righteous Among the Nations from France

05/09/2012
President Shimon Peres meeting members of the Commission for the Designation of the Righteous

President Peres tribute to Righteous Among the Nations Commission

04/09/2012
Maestro Giora Feidman playing to Minister of Justice Yaakov Neeman and his wife, seated in the audience at the Mashiv Haruach concert

"Mashiv Haruach" 2012 - an Annual Concert of Jewish Soul Music

28/08/2012
President Joachim Gauck in the Holocaust History Museum

Visit of President of Germany Joachim Gauck and Ms. Daniela Schadt to Yad Vashem May 29, 2012

29/05/2012
The Kruminis-Lozowskis with Holocaust survivor Raya-Rachel Varejes, surrounded by her family

Yad Vashem Posthumously Honors Antoni and Maria Kruminis-Łozowski as Righteous Among the Nations from Poland

04/04/2012
Avner Shalev, Chairman of Yad Vashem, plants the sapling.

Sapling from Chestnut Tree that Anne Frank Wrote About Planted at Yad Vashem

26/03/2012
Holocaust survivor Dr. Avraham Horowitz's with his family and Malgorzata-Ana Gronek, granddaughter of Righteous Among the Nations Stanislaw and Regina Swida

Yad Vashem Posthumously Honors Stanisław and Regina Świda as Righteous Among the Nations from Poland

22/03/2012
Gilad Shalit during a tour of the Holocaust History Museum

Recent Visit of Gilad Shalit to Yad Vashem

14/03/2012
Gabi Hochman (who was saved by Righteous Among the Nations Sister Marie Emilienne and the late Father Joseph Caupert) together with family members and Sister Marie Emilienne in the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem

Righteous Among the Nations from France Participates in Ceremony at Yad Vashem Together with Survivor

28/02/2012
Mr. Henry Foner (one of the Kindertransport children) and Ms. Aliza Tennenbaum (Head of the Kindertransport Association in Israel)

Special Gathering of Kindertransport Children at Yad Vashem

27/02/2012
Pictured here are: Chairperson of the Society of Friends of Yad Vashem in Germany Hildegard Muller, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, Israeli Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar, and Avner Shalev, following the signing of the agreement

Agreement Signed at Yad Vashem by German and Israeli Governments

01/02/2012
The Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council Rabbi Israel Meir Lau affixing the mezuzah

Inauguration of the new International Seminars Wing and the Edmond J. Safra Lecture Hall of the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem

30/01/2012
Mr. Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate

Symposium Marking 70 Years Since the Wannsee Conference

23/01/2012