Liberian President Tours Yad Vashem

06 June 2016

In the Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations with Yad Vashem Guide Liz Elsby

The delegation toured the Museum of Holocaust Art, which displays artworks created by Jews during and immediately following the crucible of the Holocaust

A collection of dolls and toys belonging to children during the Holocaust displayed in the "Stars Without a Heaven" exhibition

One of the refurbished pieces of Judaica rescued from postwar Europe exhibited in the circular outer wall of the Synagogue

The President laid a wreath In the Hall of Remembrance on behalf of the people of Liberia in memory of the six million Holocaust victims

On Monday 6 June, President of Liberia, H.E. Ms. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, visited Yad Vashem. Ms. Johnson-Sirleaf toured the Museum of Holocaust Art and the exhibition "Stars Without a Heaven: Children in the Holocaust," as well as the Yad vashem Synagogue, which houses several refurbished pieces of Judaica from Eastern Europe. The President also participated in a memorial ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance and visited the Children's Memorial. At the conclusion of her visit, she signed the Yad Vashem Guest Book and expressed how she and her delegation shared "in the pain and memories as we walked through the past events of sorrow."