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"Every time that my feet touch the land of Israel and lead me to Yad Vashem, the faces of my dear ones and my friends - which constantly haunt me - burst out in front of my eyes. I am deeply moved today, especially as we have come, on the occasion of Yad Vashem's 50th anniversary, from the four corners of the earth in order to express our commitment to the memory of the six million murdered Jews."

 

President of the French Fondation pour la Memoire de la Shoah, Simone Veil during the ceremony of the signing of the Declaration of Remembrance at the President's Residence 17/9/2003

14/9/2003 - David Azrieli, architect and donor of the Book and Resource Center, speaks at the dedication ceremony. 15/9/2003 -of the Speaker of the Knesset, Reuven Rivlin. Left to right: Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate, Reuven Rivlin, Speaker of the Knesset, Prof. Szewach Weiss, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council and Dov Shilansky, member of the Yad Vashem Directorate. Israel Philatelic Service Issues Two Commemorative Stamps in Honor of Yad Vashem’s Jubilee Year at an inaugural ceremony held in the office Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate receives the Ringelblum box in which part of the archives of the Warsaw Ghetto were hidden. The box was given to Yad Vashem by the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute o
15/9/2003 (left to right) Shimon Peres, head of the OppositionMs. Cheryl Lifshitz,Young Leadership Delegate of the America Society for Yad Vashem, and Avner Shalev, Chairman of theYad Vashem Directorate at the dedication of Benefactors' Wall.  15/9/2003 Jewish Euro-Asiatic Congress, addresses the reception for International Friends Delegations held in the Dr. Alexander Maskewitz, President of the Valley of the Communities. Participants in the reception included: Minister of Immigrant Absorption, TzipiLivni, Mayor of Jerusalem, Uri Lupolianski, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, Prof. Szewach Weiss,Chairman of the Center of Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel Noah Flug, and representatives of the delegations. 16/9/2003 Scenes from the opening ceremony marking Yad Vashem's Jubilee Year.
16/9/2003 - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon speaks at the opening event marking Yad Vashem's Jubilee Year. 16/9/2003 Scenes from the opening ceremony marking Yad Vashem's Jubilee Year. 16/9/2003 Shlomo Mintz, violinist and conductor, presents violin from the Holocaust period to Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate, during the opening ceremony marking Yad Vashem's Jubilee Year.
16/9/2003 Eli Zborowski, Chairman of the American Society for Yad Vashem, speaks at the opening ceremony marking the Jubilee Year. 17/9/2003 Chief of Staff, Moshe Ya'alon, speaks at the innauguration ceremony of the Partisans' Panoroma 17/9/2003 Claude Lanzmann signs The Declaration of Remembrance at the President's Residence. The declaration was signed by Israeli heads of state and Jewish leaders from Israel and abroad.
  President of Israel, Moshe Katsav (right) displaying the Declaration of Remembrance with Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate 17.9.2003  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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