During his visit to Yad Vashem on 28 September, Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych (right) was given a tour of the Historical Museum (pictured with Mark Shraberman, Documentation Registrar in the Archives Division).

On 15 July, Cameron Kerry (center)—brother of Democratic US presidential candidate Senator John Kerry—and his wife Kathy Weinman searched the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names with Director of the Hall of Names Alexander Avraham (right), and found information on his great aunt and uncle who were murdered in the Holocaust.  Kerry also visited the archives where he was shown original documents relating to his family’s fate.

On 28 July Georgian Prime Minister Mikhail Saakashvili (right) toured Yad Vashem, including the Children’s Memorial, accompanied by Editor of Yad Vashem Studies Dr. David Silberklang (left).

Actor Chris Noth visited Yad Vashem on 26 July and toured the Historical Museum (pictured), the Art Museum’s “No Child’s Play” exhibit and the Children’s Memorial.

On 6 September, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited Yad Vashem and laid a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance.