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Yad Vashem is open to the general public, free of charge. All visits to Yad Vashem must be reserved in advance.

Dr. Gila Fatran

Dr. Gila Fatran

Dr. Gila Fatran (née Goldstein), her brother Avraham, his wife and their younger son survived the Holocaust in hiding. All her other family members perished in the Holocaust. Born in 1929 in Michalovce, Slovakia, Gila Fatran and her family fled to Budapest in 1943 but following the German occupation of Hungary in 1944, they returned to Žilina, Slovakia. In 1949 Gila immigrated to Israel. She studied at the Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem Universities, worked as a teacher for over 30 years and has published extensively on Holocaust history and the history of Slovak Jewry.  Gila Fatran is a member of the Commission for the Designation of the Righteous Among the Nations.