The International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem was established as an autonomous academic unit, in order to broaden and deepen research work in the area of the Holocaust, and to encourage post-doctoral and advanced research projects specifically. The Institute is involved in the development and coordination of international research, planning and undertaking of research projects, organization of international conferences, preparation and publication of research works, conference papers, documents and monographs on the Holocaust. More...

This year marks the close of Yad Vashem’s Jubilee year, and sixty years since the end of World War Two. During the last few months of the war in 1945, as the Third Reich was crumbling, the Nazis made every effort to complete the genocide of the Jews, and forced the remaining survivors in the camps to set out on “death marches” into the heart of Germany. When the war finally ended, the remnants of those survivors, the “burning brand from the fire,” the “She’erit Hapleita,” began their superhuman effort to achieve rehabilitation and revival. More...