NBA Stars Visit Yad Vashem

26 July 2015

The players contemplate the collection of victims' shoes

Omri Casspi tours the Holocaust History Museum

Tyreke Evans views prisoner mugshots of Jewish inmates

Israeli basketball player and NBA star, Omri Casspi brought a delegation of American NBA basketball players to visit Yad Vashem today for the first time. Visiting with Caspi are his Sacramento Kings teammates, Rudy Gay, Demarcus Cousins, and Caron Butler as well as Chandler Parsons of the Dallas Mavericks, Alan Anderson of the Washington Wizards, Tyreke Evans of the New Orleans Pelicans and Iman Shumpert of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

During their visit at Yad Vashem, the basketball players toured the Holocaust History Museum, visited the Hall of Remembrance, toured the Children's Memorial and signed the Yad Vashem Guest Book.