Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem

יָד וַשֵׁם
Aerial view of Yad Vashem
Established	19 August 1953
Location	On the western slope of Mount Herzl, also known as the Mount of Remembrance, a height in western Jerusalem, Israel
Type	Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust
Visitors	about 925.000 (2017)[1], 800.000 (2016 and 2015)[2]
Website	www.yadvashem.org

Yad Vashem (Hebrew: .mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output .script-Hebr{font-size:1.15em;font-family:"Ezra SIL","Ezra SIL SR","Keter Aram Tsova","Taamey Ashkenaz","Taamey David CLM","Taamey Frank CLM","Frank Ruehl CLM","Keter YG","Shofar","David CLM","Hadasim CLM","Simple CLM","Nachlieli","SBL BibLit","SBL Hebrew",Cardo,Alef,"Noto Serif Hebrew","Noto Sans Hebrew","David Libre",David,"Times New Roman",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}יָד וַשֵׁם‬; literally, "a monument and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the dead; honoring Jews who fought against their Nazi oppressors and Gentiles who selflessly aided Jews in need; and researching the phenomenon of the Holocaust in particular and genocide in general, with the aim of avoiding such events in the future.

Established in 1953, Yad Vashem is on the western slope of Mount Herzl, also known as the Mount of Remembrance, a height in western Jerusalem, 804 meters (2,638 ft) above sea level and adjacent to the Jerusalem Forest. The memorial consists of a 180-dunam (18.0 ha; 44.5-acre) complex containing the Holocaust History Museum, memorial sites such as the Children's Memorial and the Hall of Remembrance, the Museum of Holocaust Art, sculptures, outdoor commemorative sites such as the Valley of the Communities, a synagogue, a research institute with archives, a library, a publishing house, and an educational center, the International School/Institute for Holocaust Studies.

A core goal of Yad Vashem's founders was to recognize non-Jews who, at personal risk and without a financial or evangelistic motive, chose to save Jews from the ongoing genocide during the Holocaust. Those recognized by Israel as Righteous Among the Nations are honored in a section of Yad Vashem known as the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations.

Yad Vashem is the second-most-visited Israeli tourist site, after the Western Wall, with approximately one million visitors each year. It does not charge any fee for admission.

Contents

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  1 Etymology
  


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  2 History
  


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  3 Administration
  


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  4 Objectives
  
  
  
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    4.1 Yad Vashem Studies
    
  
  
  
  


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  5 Museum
  


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  6 Architecture
  


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  7 Hall of Names
  


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  8 Archives
  
  
  
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    8.1 Examples of photos from the Yad Vashem Archive
    
  
  
  
  


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  9 Righteous Among the Nations
  


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  10 Art gallery
  


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  11 Prizes awarded by Yad Vashem
  


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  12 Awards bestowed upon Yad Vashem
  


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  13 Notable visitors
  
  
  
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    13.1 Royalty
    
  
  
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    13.2 Politicians
    
    
    
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      13.2.1 Presidents
      
    
    
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      13.2.2 Prime Ministers (Head of government)
      
    
    
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      13.2.3 International organizations
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
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    13.3 Religious figures
    
  
  
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    13.4 Others
    
  
  
  
  


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  14 See also
  


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  15 References
  


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  16 External links
  

Etymology

The name "Yad Vashem" is taken from a verse 56 in the Book of Isaiah: "To them I will give within my temple and its walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will endure forever" (Isaiah 56:5). Naming the Holocaust memorial "yad vashem" (Biblical Hebrew יָ֣ד וָשֵׁ֔ם‬ yād wā-šêm) conveys the idea of establishing a national depository for the names of Jewish victims who have no one to carry their name after death. The original verse referred to eunuchs who, although they could not have children, could still live for eternity with the Lord.^[3]

History

The wagon (or cattle car) monument in memory of the Holocaust trains

The idea of establishing a memorial in the historical Jewish homeland for Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust was conceived during World War II, as a response to reports of the mass murder of Jews in Nazi-occupied countries. Yad Vashem was first proposed in September 1942, at a board meeting of the Jewish National Fund, by Mordecai Shenhavi, a member of Kibbutz Mishmar Ha'emek.^[3] In August 1945, the plan was discussed in greater detail at a Zionist meeting in London. A provisional board of Zionist leaders was established that included David Remez as chairman, Shlomo Zalman Shragai, Baruch Zuckerman, and Shenhavi. In February 1946, Yad Vashem opened an office in Jerusalem and a branch office in Tel Aviv, and in June that year convened its first plenary session. In July 1947, the First Conference on Holocaust Research was held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. However, the outbreak in May 1948 of the War of Independence brought operations to a standstill for two years.

On 19 August 1953, the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, unanimously passed the Yad Vashem Law, establishing the Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, the aim of which was "the commemoration in the Homeland of all those members of the Jewish people who gave their lives, or rose up and fought the Nazi enemy and its collaborators," and to set up "a memorial to them, and to the communities, organizations and institutions that were destroyed because they belonged to the Jewish people."^[4]

Valley of the Destroyed Communities

On 29 July 1954, the cornerstone for the Yad Vashem building was laid on a hill in western Jerusalem, to be known as the Mount of Remembrance (Hebrew: Har HaZikaron‎); the organization had already begun projects to collect the names of individuals killed in the Holocaust; acquire Holocaust documentation and personal testimonies of survivors for the Archives and Library; and develop research and publications. The memorial and museum opened to the public in 1957.^[5][6]

The location of Yad Vashem on the western side of Mount Herzl, an area devoid of weighty historical associations, was chosen to convey a symbolic message of "rebirth" after destruction, distinct from the Chamber of the Holocaust, founded in 1948 on Mount Zion.^[7][8] Thus, the latter museum, whose walls are lined with plaques memorializing over 2,000 Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust,^[9][10] portrays the Holocaust as a continuation of the "death and destruction" that plagued Jewish communities throughout Jewish history.^[11]

On 15 March 2005, a new Museum complex four times larger than the old one opened at Yad Vashem. It included the Holocaust History Museum with a new Hall of Names, a Museum of Holocaust Art, an Exhibitions Pavilion, a Learning Center and a Visual Center.^[12][13]

The new Yad Vashem museum was designed by Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie, replacing the previous 30-year-old exhibition.^[14] It was the culmination of a $100 million decade-long expansion project.^[15]

Administration

Buchenwald concentration camp, April 16, 1945, after liberation. Eli Wiesel, later Vice Chairman of Yad Vashem, is in the 2nd row from the bottom, 7th from the left, next to the bunk post.^[16]

In November 2008, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau was appointed Chairman of Yad Vashem's Council, replacing Tommy Lapid.^[17] The Vice Chairmen of the Council are Yitzhak Arad and Moshe Kantor. Elie Wiesel was Vice Chairman of the Council until his death on July 2, 2016.^[18]

The Chairman of the Directorate is (since 1993) Avner Shalev, who replaced Yitzhak Arad, who had served in this position for 21 years. The Director General is Dorit Novak. The Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research and Incumbent is John Najmann. The Chair for Holocaust Studies is Prof. Dan Michman. The Chief Historian is Prof. Dina Porat. The Academic Advisor is Prof. Yehuda Bauer.^[18]

The Members of the Yad Vashem Directorate are Yossi Ahimeir, Daniel Atar, Michal Cohen, Matityahu Drobles, Abraham Duvdevani, Prof. Boleslaw (Bolek) Goldman, Vera H. Golovensky, Moshe Ha-Elion, Adv. Shlomit Kasirer, Yossi Katribas, Yehiel Leket, Baruch Shub, Dalit Stauber, Dr. Zehava Tanne, Adv. Shoshana Weinshall, and Dudi Zilbershlag.^[18]

Objectives

The Eternal Flame

The aims of Yad Vashem are education, research and documentation, and commemoration.^[19] Yad Vashem organizes professional development courses for educators both in Israel and throughout the world; develops age-appropriate study programs, curricula, and educational materials for Israeli and foreign schools in order to teach students of all ages about the Holocaust; holds exhibitions about the Holocaust; collects the names of Holocaust victims;^[20] collects photos, documents, and personal artifacts; and collects Pages of Testimony memorializing victims of the Holocaust.^[21] Yad Vashem seeks to preserve the memory and names of the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, and the numerous Jewish communities destroyed during that time. It holds ceremonies of remembrance and commemoration; supports Holocaust research projects; develops and coordinates symposia, workshops, and international conferences; and publishes research, memoirs, documents, albums, and diaries related to the Holocaust.^[22] Yad Vashem also honors non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.

The International School/Institute for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem, founded in 1993, offers guides and seminars for students, teachers, and educators, and develops pedagogic tools for use in the classroom.^[23] Yad Vashem trains 10,000 domestic and foreign teachers every year.^[24] The organization operates a web site in several languages, including German, Hebrew, Farsi, and Arabic. In 2013 Yad Vashem launched an online campaign in Arabic, promoting Yad Vashem's website. The campaign reached over 2.4 million Arabic speakers from around the globe, and the traffic to Yad Vashem's website was tripled.^[25]

The institution's policy is that the Holocaust "cannot be compared to any other event". In 2009 Yad Vashem fired a docent for comparing the trauma Jews suffered in the Holocaust to the trauma Palestinians suffered during Israel's War of Independence, including the Deir Yassin massacre.^[26]

Yad Vashem Studies

Yad Vashem Studies is a peer-reviewed semi-annual scholarly journal on the Holocaust. Published since 1957, it appears in both English and Hebrew editions.^[27]

Museum

View of Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum

Yad Vashem opened to the public in 1957. Its exhibits focused on Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto, the uprisings in Sobibor and Treblinka death camps, and the struggle of survivors to reach Israel.^[28]

In 1993, planning began for a larger, more technologically advanced museum to replace the old one. The new building, designed by Canadian-Israeli architect Moshe Safdie, consists of a long corridor connected to 10 exhibition halls, each dedicated to a different chapter of the Holocaust. The museum combines the personal stories of 90 Holocaust victims and survivors, and presents approximately 2,500 personal items including artwork and letters donated by survivors and others. The old historical displays revolving around anti-Semitism and the rise of Nazism have been replaced by exhibits that focus on the personal stories of Jews killed in the Holocaust. According to Avner Shalev, the museum's curator and chairman, a visit to the new museum revolves around "looking into the eyes of the individuals. There weren't six million victims, there were six million individual murders."^[28]

The new museum was dedicated on 15 March 2005 in the presence of leaders from 40 states and former Secretary General of the UN Kofi Annan. President of Israel Moshe Katzav said that Yad Vashem serves as "an important signpost to all of humankind, a signpost that warns how short the distance is between hatred and murder, between racism and genocide".^[29] According to Jonathan Kis-Lev, in recent years the Museum was visited by a growing number of Palestinians, as part of efforts of various organizations to bridge the gap between Israelis and Palestinians. "Learning about the Holocaust," Kis-Lev wrote, "helped the Palestinian members of our binational group better understand the Jewish perspective, and was a turning point in improving our relationship."^{[30][page needed]}

Architecture

Prism skylight

The museum, designed by Moshe Safdie, is shaped like a triangular concrete prism that cuts through the landscape, illuminated by a 200 meters (656 ft)-long skylight. Visitors follow a preset route that takes them through underground galleries that branch off from the main hall.^[15]

Hall of Names

Main article: Hall of Names

The Hall of Names containing Pages of Testimony commemorating the millions of Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust

The Hall of Names is a memorial to the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. The main hall is composed of two cones: one ten meters high, with a reciprocal well-like cone excavated into the underground rock, its base filled with water. On the upper cone is a display featuring 600 photographs of Holocaust victims and fragments of Pages of Testimony. These are reflected in the water at the bottom of the lower cone, commemorating those victims whose names remain unknown. Surrounding the platform is the circular repository, housing the approximately 2.2 million Pages of Testimony collected to date, with empty spaces for those yet to be submitted.

Since the 1950s, Yad Vashem has collected approximately 110,000 audio, video, and written testimonies by Holocaust survivors. As the survivors age, the program has expanded to visiting survivors in their homes, to tape interviews. Adjoining the hall is a study area with a computerized data bank where visitors can do online searches for the names of Holocaust victims.

Archives

The Archive is the oldest department of Yad Vashem. Before presenting an exhibition, Yad Vashem collects items. The best known of these are the historical photographs, as well as the Pages of Testimonies collected from survivors. The latter is a database of personal information about those who survived and those who perished in the Holocaust. Yad Vashem has also acquired access to the database of the International Tracing Service of Bad Arolsen of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and these two databases complement each other for research purposes.

Examples of photos from the Yad Vashem Archive

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  A photograph taken during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Yad Vashem Photo Archive
  

  
  

  
  


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  Photo acquired from an East German/GDR archive (ADN)
  

  
  

  
  

Righteous Among the Nations

Main article: Righteous Among the Nations

Righteous among the Nations
The Holocaust Rescuers of Jews Righteousness Seven Laws of Noah Yad Vashem
Notable individuals
Irena Adamowicz Gino Bartali Archbishop Damaskinos Odoardo Focherini Francis Foley Helen of Greece and Denmark Princess Alice of Battenberg Marianne Golz Feng-Shan Ho Wilm Hosenfeld Constantin Karadja Jan Karski Valdemar Langlet Carl Lutz Aristides de Sousa Mendes Tadeusz Pankiewicz Giorgio Perlasca Marion Pritchard Ángel Sanz Briz Oskar Schindler Anton Schmid Irena Sendler Klymentiy Sheptytsky Ona Šimaitė Henryk Sławik Tina Strobos Chiune Sugihara Casper ten Boom Corrie ten Boom Johan van Hulst Raimondo Viale Raoul Wallenberg Johan Hendrik Weidner Rudolf Weigl Jan Zwartendijk
By country
Albanian Austrian Chinese Croatian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Serbian Ukrainian
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Tree, memorial honoring Irena Sendler (Polish nurse who saved 2,500 Jews when it was forbidden during the Holocaust) in Jerusalem, Israel

Janusz Korczak and the children, memorial

Memorial to the Jewish children murdered by the Nazis

One of Yad Vashem's tasks is to honor non-Jews who risked their lives, liberty, or positions to save Jews during the Holocaust. To this end, a special independent commission, headed by a retired Supreme Court justice, was established. The commission members, including historians, public figures, lawyers, and Holocaust survivors, examine and evaluate each case according to a well-defined set of criteria and regulations. The Righteous receive a certificate of honor and a medal, and their names are commemorated in the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations,^[31] on the Mount of Remembrance, Yad Vashem. This is an ongoing project that will continue for as long as there are valid requests, substantiated by testimonies or documentation. Five hundred fifty-five individuals were recognized during 2011, and as of 2019^[update], more than 26,973 individuals have been recognized as Righteous Among the Nations.^{[citation needed][32]}

Yad Vashem's declared policy is not to provide meaningful recognition, even in a possible new category, to Jews who rescued Jews, regardless of the number of people their activism saved. The stated reason is that Jews had an obligation to save fellow Jews and don't deserve recognition.^[33][34]

Art gallery

Yad Vashem houses the world's largest collection of artwork produced by Jews and other victims of Nazi occupation in 1933–1945. The Yad Vashem Art Department supervises a 10,000-piece collection, adding 300 pieces a year, most of them donated by survivors' families or discovered in attics.^[35] Included in the collection are works by Alexander Bogen, Alice Lok Cahana, Samuel Bak, and Felix Nussbaum.

Prizes awarded by Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem awards the following book prizes:

• Yad Vashem Prize for Children's Holocaust Literature


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  Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research, established in 2011 in memory of Abraham Meir Schwartzbaum, Holocaust survivor, and his family who was murdered in the Holocaust. It is awarded annually in recognition of high scholarly research and writing on the Holocaust.^[36]
  


• Sussman Prize for Paintings of the Shoah.


• The annual Buchman Foundation Memorial Prize, for writers and scholars for Holocaust-related works. Recipients include:^[37]
  
  
  • 2007: Hanoch Bartov, for Beyond the Horizon, Across the Street
    
  
  
  • 2007: Shlomo Aharonson, for Hitler, the Allies and the Jews
    
  
  
  • Earlier: Aharon Appelfeld, Alona Frankel (2005),^[38]Ida Fink, Dina Porat, Lizzie Doron, Amir Gottfreund, and Itamar Levin.
  
  
  
  

Awards bestowed upon Yad Vashem

• In 1973, the Pinkas HaKehillot (Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities) project of Yad Vashem was awarded the Israel Prize, for its special contribution to society and the State.^[39]
  


• In 2003, Yad Vashem was awarded the Israel Prize, for lifetime achievement and its special contribution to society and the State.^[40][41]
  


• In September 2007, Yad Vashem received the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord.^[42] The Prince of Asturias Awards are presented in eight categories. The Award for Concord is bestowed upon a person, persons, or institution whose work has made an exemplary and outstanding contribution to mutual understanding and peaceful coexistence among men, to the struggle against injustice or ignorance, to the defense of freedom, or whose work has widened the horizons of knowledge or has been outstanding in protecting and preserving mankind's heritage.


• On 25 October 2007, Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his "extraordinary work on behalf of Holocaust remembrance worldwide." French President Nicolas Sarkozy presented Shalev with the award in a special ceremony at the Elysee Palace.
  
  • In 2011, Shalev received the City of Jerusalem's Patron of Jerusalem Award in recognition of his work in the city.^[43]
    
  
  

Notable visitors

Royalty

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  Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (1995)


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  Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark (2013)^[44]
  


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  Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (2018)^[45]
  

Politicians

Presidents

President Donald Trump and family at Yad Vashem, May 2017

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  François Tombalbaye (1965)^[46]
  


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  Luis Echeverría (1975)^[47]
  


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  Anwar Sadat (1977)^[48]
  


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  Richard von Weizsäcker (1985)^[49]
  


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  Bill Clinton (1994)^[50]
  


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  Emil Constantinescu (2000)^[51]
  


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  Stjepan Mesić (2001)^[52]
  


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  Horst Köhler (2005)^[53]
  


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  Boris Tadić (2005)^[54]
  


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  Vladimir Putin (2005)^[55]
  


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  Lech Kaczyński (2006)^[56]
  


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  George W. Bush (2008)^[57]
  


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  Nicolas Sarkozy (2008)^[58]
  


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  Christian Wulff (2010)^[59]
  


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  Ivo Josipović (2012)^[60]
  


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  Joachim Gauck (2012)^[61]
  


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  Barack Obama (2013)^[62]
  


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  Tomislav Nikolic (2013)^[63]
  


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  Nicos Anastasiades (2013)^[64]
  


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  Juan Manuel Santos Calderón (2013)^[65]
  


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  Miloš Zeman (2013)^[66]
  


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  Goodluck Jonathan (2013)^[67]
  


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  Bronislaw Komorowski (2013)^[68]
  


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  Otto Pérez Molina (2013)^[69]
  


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  Mahinda Rajapaksa (2014)^[70]
  


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  Traian Băsescu (2014)^[71]
  


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  Ollanta Humala (2014)^[72]
  


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  Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (2015)^[73]
  


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  Andrzej Duda (2017)^[74]
  


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  Frank-Walter Steinmeier (2017)^[75]
  


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  Donald Trump (2017)


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  Rumen Radev (2018)^[76]
  

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  Rodrigo Duterte (2018)^[77][78]
  

Prime Ministers (Head of government)

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  Bob Hawke^[79]
  


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  Tage Erlander^[80]
  


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  Dawda Jawara (1966)^[81]
  


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  Margaret Thatcher (1986)^[82]
  


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  John Major (1990–97)^[83]
  


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  Konstantinos Mitsotakis (1992)^[84]
  


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  Sergey Tereshchenko (1992)^[85]
  


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  Adolfas Šleževičius (1993)^[86]
  


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  Jean Chrétien (2000)^[87]
  


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  Ivo Sanader (2005)^[88]
  


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  Recep Tayyip Erdogan (2005)^[89]
  


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  Angela Merkel (2006)^[90]
  


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  Bidzina Ivanishvili (2013)^[91]
  


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  Enrico Letta (2013)^[92]
  


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  Antonis Samaras (2013)^[93]
  


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  Mark Rutte (2013)^[94]
  


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  Stephen Harper (2014)^[95]
  


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  Bohuslav Sobotka (2014)^[96]
  


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  Aleksandar Vučić (2014)^[97]
  


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  Alexis Tsipras (2015)^[98]
  


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  Edi Rama (2015)^[99]
  


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  Shinzō Abe (2015)^[100]
  


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  Andrej Plenković (2017)^[101]
  


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  Narendra Modi (2017)^[102]
  


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  Malcolm Turnbull (2017)^[103]
  

International organizations

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  Kurt Waldheim^[104]
  


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  Ban Ki-Moon^[105]
  

Religious figures

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  14th Dalai Lama (1994)^[106]
  


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  Pope John Paul II (2000)^[107]
  


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  Pope Benedict XVI (2009)^[108]
  


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  Justin Welby (2013), Archbishop of Canterbury^[109]
  


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  Pope Francis (2014)

Others

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  Marlene Dietrich, German-American actor^[110]
  

See also

• The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names


• Gathering the fragments


• List of Israel Prize recipients


• List of Righteous Among the Nations by country


• The Holocaust History Project


• Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future


• Major camps: Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau and Treblinka
  

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