Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust
Cooperation with Yad Vashem is a gain in the fight against antisemitism: It's good that the countries have decided to cooperate with Yad Vashem ...
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Key FactsGerman States Approve Yad Vashem Cooperation
Oct 17, 2026 · Reading time: ~30 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: faz.net
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: faz.net
- The responsible state ministers approved cooperation with Yad Vashem, to be institutionalized through planned branches in Munich and Leipzig.
- The article describes historical Holocaust knowledge as an indispensable foundation against antisemitism, but explicitly not a cure-all.
- According to the article, a Berlin politician celebrates her faction admission as political gain against Germany’s state policy on Israel’s security.
- In Saxony-Anhalt, a party reportedly seeking government power downplays Nazism and describes a synagogue attack as a rampage.
Yad Vashem: Federal states and Holocaust memorial want to expand educational work
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First Holocaust letters in German - | Reading on October 14: Yad Vashem is publishing a collection of letters from Holocaust survivors. A reading will take place ...
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Leipzig: Yad Vashem branch to open in 2027 - | Saxony provides 5 million in funding
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The Yad Vashem USA Foundation has issued a statement following the news that John Galliano has bowed out of the Met Gala where he was set to be honored:
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Christian woman who saved Jewish baby during Holocaust honored by Yad Vashem 83 years later
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83 years later, woman who saved Jewish baby in Holocaust named Righteous Among the Nations
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A family finds at Yad Vashem a miniature Hebrew Bible written in the Lodz ghetto: More than 80 years after the Holocaust, three generations of the same family ...
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Israeli, German FMs meet as Berlin expands Yad Vashem support, urges release of PA funds
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Germany to boost annual Yad Vashem, Holocaust museum funding to 5 million euros under new agreement
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OpinionSupporters of genocide have no place in Israel's next government: The distance between two Jerusalem landmarks, the Knesset and the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial ...
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After Yad Vashem's cancellation: What will become of the RGM study center at Cologne Cathedral?
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The President of Somaliland, H.E. Abdirahman Mohamed Abdulahi, will visit Yad Vashem on Sunday, June 14. The visit will include a guided tour of the Holocaust ... Show more
"Completely independent": Yad Vashem memorial defends itself against German criticism
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Yad Vashem: Strong support for planned branch in Munich: Charlotte Knobloch calls it a "necessary counterweight," the Minister-President an "honor": The state ...
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Are the planned Yad Vashem branches a gateway for Israel's right wing?: Are the memorial's branches in Munich and Leipzig a cause for joy or concern? ...
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Berlin is to get a Yad Vashem Street - | Where it is planned.: A view inside the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.
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OpinionDebate about Holocaust memorial: Who is afraid of Yad Vashem?: Germany is getting two branches of Yad Vashem. Following the decision, critics warn of Israeli ...
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Paid articlePaywall Berlin is to get a Yad Vashem Street - | Where it is planned.: A view inside the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.
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Yad Vashem chairman accused of ‘Russian propaganda’: Dani Dayan was added to a Ukrainian blacklist after criticizing the state reburial of Andriy Melnyk ...
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After the Yad Vashem decision: This is what happens next at the Ariowitsch House in Leipzig
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The world's largest Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem is responding to rising anti-semitism. The memorial is establishing its first educational center outside ... Show more
News podcast: Why the attacks in the Middle East continue: Even though the weapons have officially fallen silent, the attacks in the Middle East continue ...
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‘We are all Jews’: the American POW who defied the Nazis to save his Jewish comrades
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Inside Yad Vashem's 'Living Memory': A window to victims' souls: At Yad Vashem, ‘Living Memory’ reveals how objects, letters, and art carry the weight of lives ...
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'Am I a murderer?' Yad Vashem restores a Jewish ghetto policeman's Holocaust confession
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In the Łódź Ghetto, Jews defied Nazis through art. Now it is exhibited in Jerusalem
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'Go have coffee in Yad Vashem!': A night of poetry in a BDSM club reveals the state of Israeli culture
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Paid articlePaywall Keeping time: How Jews preserved ritual and hope in the Holocaust’s darkest days: Yad Vashem exhibition chronicles the times and lives of Jewish communities ...
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Eine Delegation des Yad Vashem Education Centers hat am Dienstag, 28. April, Düsseldorf besucht. Im Rahmen des Besuchs wurde eine städtische Immobilie an der ... Show more
New plans: Will the Yad Vashem Education Center move into the Leipzig Museum of Natural History?
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Paid articlePaywall The Jerusalem Post Magazine : 101 years old, 100 letters, one love story that survived the Holocaust
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A Methodist minister hid a synagogue in his attic
During WWII, Einar Anker Nilsson secretly opened his church attic in Trondheim, Norway ... Show more
Israel is marking Holocaust Remembrance Day while at war with Iran.
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Yad Vashem's state ceremony will be prerecorded for the ... Show more
Holocaust survivor’s hidden poems discovered decades later reveal life as partisan
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Letters of love and survival: A Holocaust love story preserved at Yad Vashem: A young Orthodox couple in Hungary exchanged messages that sustained them through ...
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Yad Vashem after dark: A French journalist’s night alone among Holocaust memories
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Donald Trump honors Roddie Edmonds for defying Nazi orders | The Jerusalem Post: Edmond's heroism has also been recognized by Yad Vashem, which named him ...
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India’s Modi arrives in Israel for official visit | The Jerusalem Post: Modi was greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben-Gurion Airport ...
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PM Modi, Netanyahu visit Jerusalem Memorial Yad Vashem; pay tribute to holocaust victims
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Modi lands in Israel for historic official visit
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport on Wednesday ... Show more
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US soldier who saved Jews in WWII to receive Medal of Honor | The Jerusalem Post: The Medal of Honor ceremony is scheduled for March 2, 2026.
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Voluntary service in Israel: Between rocket alerts and archives: 18-year-old Daniel Grützmacher from Kusterdingen encounters traces of the Nazi era at the Yad ...
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New educational institution of the Holocaust Memorial: Is Yad Vashem coming to Saxony?
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This is the concept for Yad Vashem in Saxony: The world's first branch of the Israeli Holocaust memorial could be established in Saxony ...
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Yad Vashem head on AfD: | "Doesn't want their friendship": The head of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem explains in an interview with Euronews ...
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In November, Yad Vashem announced that the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre had established the identites of five of the six million Jews murdered in the ... Show more
Moving on from Holocaust remembrance an insult, Yad Vashem chair says
Moving on from Holocaust remembrance an insult, Yad Vashem chair says
Taking on Norway’s anti‑Israel line, lawmaker nominates Yad Vashem for Nobel Peace Prize
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Leipzig under consideration as location for Yad Vashem Education Center: The German branch of the Jerusalem Holocaust Memorial will be established in Saxony ...
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day: Moving impressions from Jerusalem - | read them in the live blog
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'It was a surprise for all of us': A Serbian woman's search for the family that saved hers in the Holo
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South Tyrol strengthens Bavaria's bid for Yad Vashem Education Center - | Holetschek is pleased about strong...
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Friends of Yad Vashem want 24/7 police protection for Jewish institutions throughout Germany
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Holocaust artifacts preserve memory as survivors fade | The Jerusalem Post: As the number of first-hand witnesses dwindles, artifacts from the Holocaust are ...
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Yad Vashem refused Zelenskyy speech: Osnabrück (ots) - | The chairman of the Israeli Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem, Dani Dayan, has confirmed that Ukrainian ...
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The Jerusalem Report : Yad Vashem recently announced the recovery of the names of five million of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust ... Show more
The Jerusalem Report : As survivor testimony dwindles, Yad Vashem has expanded its focus on collecting personal objects and documents. The museum now holds more than 200 ... Show more
Yad Vashem memorial: Merz sees lasting German responsibility for Israel: The Federal Chancellor's inaugural visit to Israel comes at a difficult time ...
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Key FactsMerz Highlights Germany's Lasting Duty to Israel
Dec 7, 2025 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: n-tv.de
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: n-tv.de
- Chancellor Friedrich Merz affirmed Germany's enduring responsibility for Israel's safety during his visit to the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem.
- He paid tribute to the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and vowed to keep the memory of the Shoah alive.
- Merz plans to meet Prime Minister Netanyahu to advocate for a two-state solution and improved humanitarian aid in Gaza.
- The chancellor will also address tensions in the West Bank and meet former hostages and their families before returning to Berlin.
Germany must stand for the existence and security of Israel. This is part of the immutable essence of our relations, and it will be forever.— Friedrich Merz, Chancellor, expresses during his visit to the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem.
Street names: Who decides about our memory?: The planned Yad Vashem Street near the Reichstag is an indicator of tectonic shifts in German politics ...
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Another renaming: This is the name Dorotheenstraße could soon bear: A commission of the Bundestag is advocating for renaming a section of Dorotheenstraße ...
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Speaking at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Germany must stand up for Israel’s existence and security forever ... Show more
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Berlin plans to rename street near parliament after Yad Vashem ｜ DPA: Berlin is set to rename part of one of the streets leading towards the Reichstag building ...
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Holocaust commemoration: Cologne wants to become a location for Yad Vashem: It would be a historic first: Yad Vashem is planning its first educational center ...
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Sign against anti-Semitism: Holocaust memorial could establish a branch in Munich
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CSU Parliamentary Group Sets an Example: Cross-Party Consensus for Yad Vashem Education Center in Bavaria
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Netanyahu blocks Merz on two-state solution: The Chancellor is balancing between solidarity and international law. Netanyahu remains uncompromising on the ...
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