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Jerusalemhem QUARTERLY MAGAZINE, Special Edition, December 2013 Yad VaJerusalemhem QUARTERLY MAGAZINE, Special Edition, December 2013 Yad Vashem Marks 60Years and 20 Years of the International School Yad VaJerusalemhem QUARTERLY MAGAZINE, VOL. 71, Tevet 5774, December 2013 SPECIAL EDITION Contents Published by: “Not Just a History Lesson” ■ 2-5 “Not Just a History Lesson” Yad Vashem Avner Shalev Speaks about the Achievements The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority and Challenges of Yad Vashem in the 21st Century ■ Leah Goldstein Chairman of the Council: Rabbi Israel Meir Lau Message from Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, ■ 5 Vice Chairmen of the Council: Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council Dr. Yitzhak Arad "So That Future Generations Dr. Moshe Kantor ■ Avner Shalev assumed his position as Will Know…" ■ 6-7 Prof. Elie Wiesel Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate some Public Commemoration and Guiding Activities Chairman of the Directorate: Avner Shalev two decades ago, in an era of great change Director General: Dorit Novak Our Partners in Making and volatility worldwide. A man with a clear Head of the International Institute for Holocaust the Vision a Reality ■ 8-9 vision and a resolute mission, he has undoubtedly Research: Prof. Dan Michman The Archives ■ 10-11 changed the face, scope and pace of the Holocaust Chief Historian: Prof. Dina Porat From Collection to Accessibility Remembrance Authority, building upon the Academic Advisors: foundations laid in its formation by Shoah Prof. Yehuda Bauer The Photo Collection ■ 11 Prof. Israel Gutman z"l survivors, establishing it as a world-class center ■ 11 Members of the Yad Vashem Directorate: The Footage Collection of archival and research expertise, and placing education at the “very center of its enterprise” Yossi Ahimeir, Edna Ben-Horin, Michal Cohen, The Names Database ■ 12-13 Matityahu Drobles, Abraham Duvdevani, Unto Every Person There is a Name for the sake of the generations to follow. Prof. Boleslaw (Bolek) Goldman, As Yad Vashem marks 60 years since Vera H. Golovensky, Moshe Ha-Elion, The Art Collection ■ 14-15 Adv. Shlomit Kasirer, Yehiel Leket, its establishment, Shalev reflects upon the Effi Shtensler, Baruch Shub, Dr. Zehava Tanne, Fulfilling the Artists’ Last Will institution’s significant accomplishments as Adv. Shoshana Weinshall, Dudi Zilbershlag The Artifacts Collection ■ 15 well as the substantial challenges it faces in A Broad Mosaic of Memory the 21st century: THE MAGAZINE The Testimonies Collection ■ 16 Editor-in-Chief: Iris Rosenberg Individual Stories, Collective Memory When you were appointed Managing Editor: Leah Goldstein Chairman of the Directorate, Editorial Board: Intensifying Efforts to Gather what were your main Yifat Bachrach-Ron the Fragments ■ 17 Deborah Berman motivating forces for the Richard Mann The International Institute ■ 18-19 changes that were to follow? Susan Weisberg Cornerstones of Holocaust Research Cynthia Wroclawski As we approached the new millennium, I foresaw ■ 20 Estee Yaari Yad Vashem Publications Yad Vashem’s arrival at a critical historic Editorial Coordinator: Lilach Tamir-Itach A Legacy of Stories in Print juncture, which required thorough and effective Language Editor: Leah Goldstein Yad Vashem Studies ■ 21 preparation and responses. Yad Vashem had Proofreader: Ezra Olman At the Heart of Academic Discourse already initiated and conducted many successful Translated by: KPoint endeavors: building the foundations of the The Library ■ 22 Assisted by: Alexander Avram, Mount of Remembrance campus, thus creating a Shaya Ben Yehuda, Yossi Gevir An Island of Information place of meaning and inspiration for Holocaust Photography: Yossi Ben-David, Isaac Harari The Visual Center ■ 23 commemoration; already gathering the names Production: Ahva Printing Press Company Ltd. A Repository of Holocaust Cinema of some 1.4 million Shoah victims; instituting Design: Stephanie & Ruti Design The Museum Complex ■ 24-25 a central archive and library of information Design of the Yad Vashem 60 Years Logo: about the Holocaust; conducting the project to Ossi Kupfer A Source of Inspiration recognize the Righteous Amoung the Nations; This magazine was published with the The International School ■ 26-27 and nurturing Jewish-oriented, world-class assistance of The Azrieli Group. A World Center for Holocaust Teaching academic research to increase and substantiate ISSN 0793-7199 Increasing Holocaust Education our knowledge base regarding the Shoah. ©Articles appearing in this issue may be reprinted around the World ■ 28-29 Given these major previous accomplishments, with proper acknowledgement. Teaching Without Trauma ■ 30-31 I understood that we had to update our priorities. Yad Vashem’s activities are supported by More and more young people were being Expanding the Network ■ 30-31 exposed, sometimes haphazardly, to portions the Ministry of Education Yad Vashem Online ■ 32-33 of the Shoah narrative. This exposure was and the Claims Conference Technology in the Service of Memory potentially influential, sometimes significantly so, on both their personal and collective Righteous Among the Nations ■ 34-35 Courageous and Kind identities – in terms of how they viewed themselves and others – thus impacting their Landmarks in the History behaviors and basic life choices. In order to ■ 36 of Yad Vashem enhance the meaning of Holocaust remembrance 2 “Not Just a History Lesson” Avner Shalev Speaks about the Achievements and Challenges of Yad Vashem in the 21st Century strategic pillar of Yad Vashem’s activity was to build a school right here, on the Mount of Remembrance. Today our School has become almost a given, but back then I had to persevere in order to persuade others to get “on board” with me on this. Some questioned the idea and thought to themselves: “Why build a school in a ‘virtual cemetery’? What will this School actually do?” But I knew we had to undergo a deep change in the way the Shoah was taught, from a mere lesson or course in history to a comprehensive, insightful, mature utilization of the vast range of materials, knowledge and knowhow that we had already amassed. If we wanted a different, more meaningful approach to Holocaust education, we needed to, as it were, have our expert historians “share” the Shoah with skilled and inspiring educators. I set about nurturing an entire cadre of professional educators who, in addition to their solid historical grounding, would work with successive generations of students and teachers in rapidly changing educational environments – in Israel and worldwide. Yad Vashem’s unique advantage was that for the younger generations – as something in the tangible dimension of Yad Vashem’s we already had all the resources to feed this more than a mere obligatory ritual – I realized expanded campus. Accordingly, I sought to educational endeavor. we had to place education at the very center of ensure that natural light and the surrounding At that time, the skeptics claimed that our enterprise and work to speak to the third scenic view would reach those sitting in our we would require a maximum of six to seven and fourth post-Shoah generations, in their own new Archives and Library Building, learning classrooms. Today, 20 years later, we fill 37 language. For this purpose, we needed to build an in our new International School and touring classrooms daily, and host some 300,000 International School for Holocaust Studies. our new Museum Complex. participants per year in our educational As we began to face this great challenge I knew that the implementation of our programs. This reflects our indisputable during the early 1990s, it quickly became clear vision was dependent upon strengthening our achievements in this critical field. In addition that Yad Vashem was at least a decade behind in partnerships with friends and supporters from to the vast majority of Israeli public school introducing advanced technology in the active all over the world, Jews and non-Jews alike. students participating in some kind of service of Holocaust remembrance. I understood Our friends, in our Societies worldwide and as educational activity at Yad Vashem sometime that we had to set about digitizing our systems and individuals, joined forces with us to make it during their high school years, thousands of making our information and knowledge widely happen, and continue to fulfill their vital role educators from overseas have come to recognize accessible to the entire world. Furthermore, I came in our ongoing efforts. that the Shoah has universal importance for to understand that this wave of strategic change One of the first things you did inculcating values in the coming generations. must also include the immediate construction of Our ongoing, meaningful discussions with these a new, state-of-the-art documentation facility as Chairman was to establish professionals have engendered a compelling to house our treasure of precious and fragile the International School for new discourse devoted to a value-based archival materials, as well as a new museum Holocaust Studies. What were Holocaust education that employs central devoted to the history of the Holocaust, designed your original motivations in Shoah-related texts, themes and insights in accordance with Yad Vashem’s rejuvenated this regard and how have they in order to help young people integrate as outlook. These were my core goals as we looked been accomplished? constructive citizens of a modern, democratic ahead to the new millennium. world and create a deeper connection among This new approach of infusing life with I realized that the only effective
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