On 29 August, Yeeshai Gross (right) marked the bat mitzvah of his daughter Ariella (center) in a meaningful twinning ceremony at the Yad Vashem Synagogue.
Nancy Cooper Epstein, together with the extended Epstein family, participated in a memorable twinning ceremony of her grandson Max (bottom row, second from right), held at Yad Vashem on 20 August.
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Yad Vashem Benefactor Harry Krakowski (right) toured the Holocaust History Museum on 6 August together with the Weinstock and Kalimian families.
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Yad Vashem Pillars Barry and Marilyn Rubenstein (third from left and second from right) attended a ceremony in honor of the Bat Mitzvah of their granddaughter Rachel Altman (fourth from left). They were joined by Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev (right).
Brothers David and Andy Resnick (second from left and right) toured Yad Vashem on 24 July, accompanied by their friend and noted filmmaker Michael Bay (left) and Shaya Ben Yehuda (second from right).
On 8 July, Sander Srulowitz (left) and Aurora Kasirer (right) participated in a guided tour of Yad Vashem’s Holocaust History Museum.
On 8 July, Yad Vashem Guardian Abbi Halpern (second from right) visited Yad Vashem, along with a Young Women’s Leadership Mission from her synagogue.
Yad Vashem Sponsors Avi and Raluca Katz (left) visited the Holocaust History Museum and Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection accompanied by Shaya Ben Yehuda on 8 July.
On 7 July, Yad Vashem Pillar Steven Baral paid a visit to the tree planted in memory and recognition of Righteous Among the Nations Tadeusz Pankiewicz, who rescued Steven’s father Martin Baral during the Holocaust.
Mitch Kreitenberg visited Yad Vashem on 4 July along with his brother Ernie and his son Ben and friend, Jonathan Feldman. Together, they viewed The Auschwitz Album, which contains photos of Mitch and Ernie’s father and family.
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Keren Perlmutter (right) and her sister Sharon Perlmutter Gavin (left) visited Yad Vashem’s Garden of the Righteous on 26 June to view the plaque honoring Peter and Gertrude Beijers (Netherlands), who rescued their father Avraham Perlmutter during the Holocaust.
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On 6 June, Yad Vashem Guardians Peter and Leslie Strong (right) visited Yad Vashem together with a group of colleagues. International Relations Division Managing Director Shaya Ben Yehuda presented them with a gift in recognition for their dedicated and ongoing support of Yad Vashem.
On 21 June, Abby and Andrew Crisses visited Yad Vashem’s Holocaust History Museum and Synagogue along with their son Alex
On 12 June, David Roth (fourth from left) paid a memorable visit to Yad Vashem together with his family.
Michael and Lisa Leffell (left) and Judy and David Gilberg (right) took a guided tour of the Holocaust History Museum as well as the new “Flashes of Memory: Photography during the Holocaust” exhibition on 16 June.
The American Society for Yad Vashem welcomes Stanley H. Stone, the son of Holocaust survivors, as its new Executive Director. Stanley has spent more than 30 years working for the Jewish community, including as Executive Director of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater MetroWest, NJ; Vice President of the Torah Academy of Bergen County; and as a member of the Ritual Committee of Keter Torah in Teaneck, NJ. He and his wife Ellen have six children and nine grandchildren.
