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Hour 1

We are in the week leading up to the 28^th October, when in 1938 the Nazi persecution of Jews went up a gear with the deportation of Polish Jews, which caused an event that led to Kristallnacht on November 10^th, the worst pogrom before the Holocaust.    So we begin with a walk through the Holocaust Museum at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.  We begin with life in Europe before the Shoah and move chronologically through the period of the Holocaust to liberation.   We visit the Memorial Hall with its constant flame.

From there we enter the new Hall of Names and hear from the Director how they record the details of the victims.   I then take you to the totally dark, most emotional Children’s Memorial.

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Hall of Names

Hour 2

We begin this hour with a visit to the Garden of the Righteous Gentiles.  The archives and documentation building is one of the pillars of Yad Vashem and its Director explains the work that goes on there.   But the raison d’’etre, the cornerstone of Yad Vashem is education and we are told about that important aspect by the Director of Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Study.

Individual Jews are not mentioned anywhere here, but the more than 5,000 destroyed Jewish communities are individually recorded in the monumental Valley of the Communities inspired by the valley of the dry bones; you will feel the atmosphere.    The story of the rescue to Sweden of thousands of Jews, just weeks before the end of the war, is recorded by one of the white busses in which they travelled, standing in the grounds, where there are also a number of monuments commemorating various events of the period and also the fighters and we hear about them in detail.

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Hour 3

Now we visit the areas that the visitor whose itinerary restricts the time available at Yad Vashem.  There is a Visual Centre where one can study Shoa related visual material.  We visit the Learning Centre where the visitor can explore the writings of historians and philosophers and more.  There are halls of Survivors’ art work, and also the architect’s blueprints for building Auschwitz.  The new Synagogue also has exhibits of items from destroyed European Synagogues.  In this hour we hear the feature interview with the Chairman of the Directorate Avner Shalev who gives us an overview of this world renowned establishment and his plans for the future.   And finally, we celebrate the rebirth of the Jewish Nation.

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Avner Shalev – Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate

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