New online exhibition launched by Yad Vashem

[Behind the Aegis]

JERUSALEM (EJP)--- Israel’s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem has launched a new online exhibition and mini web site in advance of next week’s Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Yom Hashoah, a solemn day when nearly all bars, cafes and restaurants are closed and most television channels focus only on Holocaust remembrance, will be held in Israel on April 16.

The new website is named “Bearing Witness”, the theme of this year’s Remembrance Day, and includes information for names reading ceremonies.

The online exhibition “Witness to the Holocaust - the Oneg Shabbat Archives ” explores the most significant collection of sources in the world documenting the Holocaust -- sources that were created, gathered, and written by the victims themselves, in real time, at the moment when they were experiencing the horrors.

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The official opening ceremony for Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day will take place on Sunday, April 15, at 8 pm (noon here in the CST zone) at the Warsaw Ghetto Square, at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem.

Israel’s Acting President Dalia Itzik and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will address the participants. Professor Szewach Weiss, chairman of the Yad Vashem council, will kindle the Memorial Torch.

Six torches will be lit by Holocaust survivors.

During the official memorial service, Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yonah Metzger will recite Psalms; the Rishon Lezion Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Shlomo Amar will recite Kaddish. El Ma’aleh Rahamim will be recited by Cantor Asher Hainowitz.

The opening ceremony is to be broadcast live on www.yadvashem.org

[Lurking Dem]

1. I would love to see the

Spots of Light: To Be A Woman in the Holocaust.

Sounds fascinating, albeit heartbreaking.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. I am hoping to watch the ceremonies live from Jerusalem.

It will depend on server speed and weather of course, but it should be interesting.

[Lurking Dem]

3. They're having an arts festival

at Temple so I may be at that. If not I do plan on tuning in.

[barb162]

4. That looks like a great exhibit

Thanks for posting

[HuffleClaw]

5. bbc made a series about auschwitz a couple years ago

that is well worth watching. 'the banality of evil' demonstrated very effectively.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. THE LIVE BROADCAST FROM ISRAEL

http://www1.yadvashem.org/remembrance/rememberance_day/remembrance_day_2007/Remembrance_day_2007_broadcast.html

[HuffleClaw]

8. thanks for the link n/t

[Lurking Dem]

7. I found this exceptionally poignant.

Memories that never fade

Second generation of Holocaust survivors passes on parents' memories

Shlomo Artzi
Published: 04.15.07, 18:53 / Israel Opinion

My mother doesn't talk about it. She simply doesn't volunteer information unless I press her. Sometimes she sighs in a low voice only discernible to a sensitive ear.



She harbors an infinite reserve of people in her memory, people who have long been gone from this world, the majority of whom she never mentions. Occasionally I manage to coax something out of her, and this happens when I pressure her, on Saturday mornings when I come to visit her.



Believe me she has quite a collection of memories that never fade, because she was there in Auschwitz after all.



And believe me I can't really relate the events, not even an iota of what she told me and what she permits me to tell. Because the truth is, she doesn't allow me to tell a thing.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3388240,00.html

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9. kick