The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to the mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It offers a powerful primary source teaching tool providing visual documentation of the deportation of masses of Jews to the extermination camp. This session, led by Yad Vashem educator Liz Elsby, will explore the story behind […]
Eddie Jaku survived Auschwitz and other camps. At aged 99 he presented a Ted Talk that has been viewed by over one million people, and at 100 he published a best-selling memoir. How did he make the choice to live a life with joy after experiencing unimaginable horror? Studying his Holocaust story provides us with […]
Photographs are like visual testimonies, but can we always use them to understand what happened during the Holocaust? Yad Vashem educator, Dr. Rocco Giansante, will guide us on how to examine Holocaust photographs from the lens of the perpetrator vs. that of the victim, and how to use them as effective primary sources in the […]
How can animations be used to safely teach younger students about the Holocaust? How can they be used to explain difficult historical concepts? In this webinar, Yad Vashem educator Yoni Berrous will guide us through the effective approaches as well as the limitations of using animations in the classroom.
In implementing the "Final Solution," the Germans and their collaborators tore millions of Jews from their homes and deported them to their deaths, obliterating centuries-old Jewish communities throughout Europe. July marks the 80th anniversary of the Great Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto, when up to 300,000 Jews were rounded up and brutally deported to the […]
The Artifacts Collection of Yad Vashem’s Museum is home to more than 27,000 items donated over the years by Holocaust survivors, their families, and various organizations. It includes a wide variety of artifacts connected to the events of the Holocaust. Each one tells its own story. Sara Shor, Manager of the Artifacts Collection at Yad […]
