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Welcome to the eleventh issue of Teaching the Legacy. The focus of this issue is “The Road Ahead – Survivors After the Holocaust”, featuring an article on this theme and two full-length interviews with survivors living in Israel. Also included is an interview about the new "Spots of Light - Women in the Holocaust" exhibition, as well as our regular updates on activities at the International School and within Yad Vashem, new Yad Vashem publications and recommended books. We hope you find this newsletter of interest and look forward to your feedback.
Interview with Walter Zwi Bacharach, Professor Emeritus of General History
IntroductionProfessor Walter Zwi Bacharach is Professor Emeritus of General History at Bar-Ilan University. He was born in Hanau, Germany in 1928. In 1938, he escaped with his family to Holland, where they were captured in 1942. He was sent to Westerbork transit camp, then to the Theresienstadt ghetto, and to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. He survived a death march and was liberated by...
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Survivors Speak about their Lives after the Holocaust
"So here I am right now, about eighty years old – coming to the year of eighty. I have two married children, wonderful children. I have five grandchildren and one great-grandson. Three generations born and raised from the ashes of the Holocaust. Today I am the happiest man in the world. Just last week I was thinking – 'My God, sixty-two years ago I came here, a boy of seventeen,...
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Interview with Ms. Yehudit Inbar, Former Director of the Museums Division at Yad Vashem
IntroductionThis exclusive interview was published in our newsletter Teaching the Legacy (January, 2008). The original interview, conducted in Hebrew, first appeared in our Hebrew edition of October, 2007. Ms. Inbar discusses the exhibition "Spots of Light: Women in the Holocaust", which she curated and displayed at Yad Vashem's art museum. A respected writer, editor,...
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Interview with Eliezer Ayalon, Holocaust Survivor
IntroductionEliezer Ayalon was born in Radom, Poland. He lived with his family in the Radom Ghetto until 1942, when Eliezer was separated from his family, who later perished in Treblinka. He was imprisoned in five different camps in Poland and in Austria. Ayalon was liberated in May, 1945, after a death march to the Ebensee concentration camp (a sub-camp of the Mauthausen camp complex). He arrived...
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