• Group of five youngsters in Purim costumes, Trzebinia, Poland, 1938. On the eve of WWII, some 1,500 Jews lived in Trzebinia, a vibrant community brimming with hasidic life and Torah learning, Zionism and pioneering spirit, political parties and youth movements. After the war, only 270 Jews from Trzebinia remained alive.⁣ Click the link in our bio to explore the new online exhibition “Purim – Before, During and After the Holocaust”.⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #yadvashem #jewishholiday #purim #costumeparty #purimcostume #purimparty #trzebinia #poland #1938 #children #history #holocaust⁣ #פורים #תחפושת⁣
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    Group of five youngsters in Purim costumes, Trzebinia, Poland, 1938. On the eve of WWII, some 1,500 Jews lived in Trzebinia, a vibrant community brimming with hasidic life and Torah learning, Zionism and pioneering spirit, political parties and youth movements. After the war, only 270 Jews from Trzebinia remained alive.⁣ Click the link in our bio to explore the new online exhibition “Purim – Before, During and After the Holocaust”.⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #yadvashem #jewishholiday #purim #costumeparty #purimcostume #purimparty #trzebinia #poland #1938 #children #history #holocaust⁣ #פורים #תחפושת⁣
  • Discover Yad Vashem Online (part 4/6) – The Righteous Among the Nations. In 1963, Yad Vashem embarked upon a worldwide project to pay tribute to the Righteous Among the Nations: non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Attitudes towards the Jews during the Holocaust mostly ranged from indifference to hostility. The mainstream watched as their former neighbors were rounded up and killed. Some collaborated with the perpetrators; many benefited from the confiscation of Jewish property. There was a small minority who mustered extraordinary courage to uphold human values. These were the Righteous Among the Nations. This program represents a unique and unprecedented attempt by the victims to pay tribute to people who stood by their side at a time of persecution and great tragedy. . . #yadvashem #righteousamongthenations #holocausthistory #holocaust #worldwar2 #history #israel
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    Discover Yad Vashem Online (part 4/6) – The Righteous Among the Nations. In 1963, Yad Vashem embarked upon a worldwide project to pay tribute to the Righteous Among the Nations: non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Attitudes towards the Jews during the Holocaust mostly ranged from indifference to hostility. The mainstream watched as their former neighbors were rounded up and killed. Some collaborated with the perpetrators; many benefited from the confiscation of Jewish property. There was a small minority who mustered extraordinary courage to uphold human values. These were the Righteous Among the Nations. This program represents a unique and unprecedented attempt by the victims to pay tribute to people who stood by their side at a time of persecution and great tragedy. . . #yadvashem #righteousamongthenations #holocausthistory #holocaust #worldwar2 #history #israel
  • Berlin, Germany, 1935, Franz Orgler, a track and field athlete at the Maccabi Berlin International Sports Day. ⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #yadvashem #museum #jerusalem #jerusalemmarathon #irunjem @jerusalem_marathon #running #runningchallenge #RunningAddict #runningtime #runninglife #israel #maccabi #מכבי⁣
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    Berlin, Germany, 1935, Franz Orgler, a track and field athlete at the Maccabi Berlin International Sports Day. ⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #yadvashem #museum #jerusalem #jerusalemmarathon #irunjem @jerusalem_marathon #running #runningchallenge #RunningAddict #runningtime #runninglife #israel #maccabi #מכבי⁣
  • Discover Yad Vashem Online (part 3/6) — Access our Online Exhibitions. Yad Vashem's online exhibitions are one of the most visited sections on our websites. Resources from our archives, databases, and collections – including testimonies, film, photos, documents, music, art, and artifacts are carefully integrated throughout the exhibitions, infusing each one with meaning and significance. . . #yadvashem #yadvashemmuseum #onlineexhibition #holocaust #history #shoah #holocausto
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    Discover Yad Vashem Online (part 3/6) — Access our Online Exhibitions. Yad Vashem's online exhibitions are one of the most visited sections on our websites. Resources from our archives, databases, and collections – including testimonies, film, photos, documents, music, art, and artifacts are carefully integrated throughout the exhibitions, infusing each one with meaning and significance. . . #yadvashem #yadvashemmuseum #onlineexhibition #holocaust #history #shoah #holocausto
  • March 1939, Jewish store damaged by a local crowd in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 1930 some 15,000 Jews lived in the city, constituting some 12% of the population. Following the creation of an independent Slovak State in March 1939, the Jews of Bratislava were subjected to discriminatory practices and persecution. During 1942 many of the Jews of Bratislava were deported to the death camps in Poland. During the war the city was home to the Bratislava Working Group, which was devoted to rescuing Jews. The group’s efforts, however, came to naught and most Slovakian Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #yadvashem #bratislava #slovakia #jews #holocaust #holocausto #shoa #history #holocausthistory⁣
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    March 1939, Jewish store damaged by a local crowd in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 1930 some 15,000 Jews lived in the city, constituting some 12% of the population. Following the creation of an independent Slovak State in March 1939, the Jews of Bratislava were subjected to discriminatory practices and persecution. During 1942 many of the Jews of Bratislava were deported to the death camps in Poland. During the war the city was home to the Bratislava Working Group, which was devoted to rescuing Jews. The group’s efforts, however, came to naught and most Slovakian Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #yadvashem #bratislava #slovakia #jews #holocaust #holocausto #shoa #history #holocausthistory⁣
  • Repost @andrellano⁣ Sunset at the Yad Vashem campus. Follow us and tag your best photos #yadvashem to be featured.⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #yadvashemmuseum #sunset #moshesafdie #travelphotography #travelgram #instatravel #jerusalem #jerusalem24_7 #jerusalemoftheday #israel #israelinstagram #ig_israel #israeloftheday #instagram_israel #insta_israel #israelimages #tmunot_israel #enjoytobeinisrael #all_israel⁣
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    Repost @andrellano⁣ Sunset at the Yad Vashem campus. Follow us and tag your best photos #yadvashem to be featured.⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #yadvashemmuseum #sunset #moshesafdie #travelphotography #travelgram #instatravel #jerusalem #jerusalem24_7 #jerusalemoftheday #israel #israelinstagram #ig_israel #israeloftheday #instagram_israel #insta_israel #israelimages #tmunot_israel #enjoytobeinisrael #all_israel⁣
  • The online exhibition “Spots of Light - to Be a Woman in the Holocaust” gives expression to the unique voice of Jewish women in the Holocaust: their choices and responses in the face of the evil, brutality and relentless hardship that they were forced to grapple with. The exhibition features various aspects of the Jewish woman's daily life during the Holocaust: Love, Motherhood, Caring for Others, Womanhood, Resistance and Rescue, Friendship, Faith, Food and the Arts. Check our Stories to read their moving stories. . . #yadvashem #shoah #holocaust #holocausthistory #history #WWII #worldwar2 #bnw #israel #westerbork @kampwesterbork #holocaustsurvivor #iwd #iwd2019 #internationalwomensday #women #womensday
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    The online exhibition “Spots of Light - to Be a Woman in the Holocaust” gives expression to the unique voice of Jewish women in the Holocaust: their choices and responses in the face of the evil, brutality and relentless hardship that they were forced to grapple with. The exhibition features various aspects of the Jewish woman's daily life during the Holocaust: Love, Motherhood, Caring for Others, Womanhood, Resistance and Rescue, Friendship, Faith, Food and the Arts. Check our Stories to read their moving stories. . . #yadvashem #shoah #holocaust #holocausthistory #history #WWII #worldwar2 #bnw #israel #westerbork @kampwesterbork #holocaustsurvivor #iwd #iwd2019 #internationalwomensday #women #womensday
  • Suzanne Spaak lived in Paris with her husband Claude, a filmmaker, and their two children. She left the comfort of her upper-class home in Paris to join the Underground and rescue Jews during the war. In October 1943, she was arrested by the Gestapo and taken to the prison in Fresnes. Before she was incarcerated, she was able to give the lists of Jewish children and their addresses to an underground comrade, thus saving the children. On August 12, 1944, less than a week before the liberation of Paris, the Germans murdered Spaak. On April 21, 1985, Yad Vashem recognized Suzanne Spaak as Righteous Among the Nations. Check our Stories to learn more about the women who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. . . #yadvashem #righteousamongthenations #paris #france #shoah #holocaust #holocausthistory #history #WWII #worldwar2 #WorldBookDay #iwd #iwd2019 #internationalwomensday #women #womensday #womensday2019 #womenhistorymonth
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    Suzanne Spaak lived in Paris with her husband Claude, a filmmaker, and their two children. She left the comfort of her upper-class home in Paris to join the Underground and rescue Jews during the war. In October 1943, she was arrested by the Gestapo and taken to the prison in Fresnes. Before she was incarcerated, she was able to give the lists of Jewish children and their addresses to an underground comrade, thus saving the children. On August 12, 1944, less than a week before the liberation of Paris, the Germans murdered Spaak. On April 21, 1985, Yad Vashem recognized Suzanne Spaak as Righteous Among the Nations. Check our Stories to learn more about the women who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. . . #yadvashem #righteousamongthenations #paris #france #shoah #holocaust #holocausthistory #history #WWII #worldwar2 #WorldBookDay #iwd #iwd2019 #internationalwomensday #women #womensday #womensday2019 #womenhistorymonth
  • Women who survived the death march to Volary. Approximately 1,300 women were evacuated from where they were imprisoned, and forced on a death march lasting for 106 days and covering more than 800 km. Check our Stories to learn more about the Death March to Volary. . . #yadvashem #volary #deathmarch #shoah #holocaust #holocausthistory #history #WWII #worldwar2 #bnw #iwd #iwd2019 #internationalwomensday #women #womensday #womensday2019 #womenhistorymonth
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    Women who survived the death march to Volary. Approximately 1,300 women were evacuated from where they were imprisoned, and forced on a death march lasting for 106 days and covering more than 800 km. Check our Stories to learn more about the Death March to Volary. . . #yadvashem #volary #deathmarch #shoah #holocaust #holocausthistory #history #WWII #worldwar2 #bnw #iwd #iwd2019 #internationalwomensday #women #womensday #womensday2019 #womenhistorymonth
  • Holocaust survivor Éva Deák (Feb. 7, 1922 – Mar. 10, 2010) was saved during the Holocaust by her fiancé, the Hungarian sports reporter Béla Stollár. On December 25, 1944 Béla Stollár was killed by the Arrow Cross in Budapest. After the war Éva married journalist and painter Pál Veress. Éva was the editor-in-chief at Corvina Press, the Hungarian foreign language publishing house that brought out art books and translations of Hungarian literature. She also wrote several books, mostly for children, which became very popular. On March 5, 2003, Yad Vashem recognized Béla Stollár as Righteous Among the Nations. . . #yadvashem #holocaustsurvivor #shoah #survivorsportraits #holocaust #holocausthistory #budapest #hungary #arrowcross #worldwar2 #WWII #portrait #portraitphotography #righteousamongthenations #iwd #iwd2019 #internationalwomensday #women #womensday #womensday2019 #womenhistorymonth
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    Holocaust survivor Éva Deák (Feb. 7, 1922 – Mar. 10, 2010) was saved during the Holocaust by her fiancé, the Hungarian sports reporter Béla Stollár. On December 25, 1944 Béla Stollár was killed by the Arrow Cross in Budapest. After the war Éva married journalist and painter Pál Veress. Éva was the editor-in-chief at Corvina Press, the Hungarian foreign language publishing house that brought out art books and translations of Hungarian literature. She also wrote several books, mostly for children, which became very popular. On March 5, 2003, Yad Vashem recognized Béla Stollár as Righteous Among the Nations. . . #yadvashem #holocaustsurvivor #shoah #survivorsportraits #holocaust #holocausthistory #budapest #hungary #arrowcross #worldwar2 #WWII #portrait #portraitphotography #righteousamongthenations #iwd #iwd2019 #internationalwomensday #women #womensday #womensday2019 #womenhistorymonth
  • Elena Bonner was born in 1923 in Merv (now Mary, Turkmenistan). The family moved later to Leningrad and then to Moscow. In 1941 Elena Bonner was drafted into the Red Army as a nurse. She was assigned to a hospital train that evacuated wounded soldiers from the Volkhov Front in the Leningrad area to the Soviet rear. She was seriously wounded in October 1941, but 2 months later got back to the army. She ended the war in Innsbruck, Austria. In medical school she met her first husband, Ivan Semyonov. They had 2 children – Tatiana (b. 1950) and Alexey (b. 1956). In 1972 Elena Bonner married Andrei Sakharov, a nuclear physicist and human rights activist. ⁣ Photo: Sakharov Archives.⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #yadvashem #shoah #holocaust #holocausthistory #history #jewishhistory #WWII #worldwar2 #redarmy #ussr #soldier #womensoldiers #iwd #iwd2019 #internationalwomensday #women #womensday #womensday2019 #womenhistorymonth⁣
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    Elena Bonner was born in 1923 in Merv (now Mary, Turkmenistan). The family moved later to Leningrad and then to Moscow. In 1941 Elena Bonner was drafted into the Red Army as a nurse. She was assigned to a hospital train that evacuated wounded soldiers from the Volkhov Front in the Leningrad area to the Soviet rear. She was seriously wounded in October 1941, but 2 months later got back to the army. She ended the war in Innsbruck, Austria. In medical school she met her first husband, Ivan Semyonov. They had 2 children – Tatiana (b. 1950) and Alexey (b. 1956). In 1972 Elena Bonner married Andrei Sakharov, a nuclear physicist and human rights activist. ⁣ Photo: Sakharov Archives.⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #yadvashem #shoah #holocaust #holocausthistory #history #jewishhistory #WWII #worldwar2 #redarmy #ussr #soldier #womensoldiers #iwd #iwd2019 #internationalwomensday #women #womensday #womensday2019 #womenhistorymonth⁣
  • Františka Grubnerová with her children. Františka was an extraordinarily successful portrait photographer, with her own studio in Brno, Czechoslovakia. She and her husband were arrested by the Germans on charges of anti-fascist underground activity. In the spring of 1942, she was deported with her two sons to Theresienstadt ghetto. Františka and her sons survived the war, and in 1949 immigrated to Eretz Israel, where she also established her own photo studio. Františka Grubnerová's Gorlitz studio camera, made in Germany, is featured in the exhibition Flashes of Memory - Photography during the Holocaust at Yad Vashem. . . #yadvashem #yadvashemmuseum #photography #photo #photoexhibition #vintagecamera #studiocamera #holocaust #history #holocausthistory #brno #czechoslovakia #theresienstadt #holocaustsurvivor #jerusalem #israel #iwd #iwd2019 #internationalwomensday #women #womensday #womensday2019 #womenhistorymonth
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    Františka Grubnerová with her children. Františka was an extraordinarily successful portrait photographer, with her own studio in Brno, Czechoslovakia. She and her husband were arrested by the Germans on charges of anti-fascist underground activity. In the spring of 1942, she was deported with her two sons to Theresienstadt ghetto. Františka and her sons survived the war, and in 1949 immigrated to Eretz Israel, where she also established her own photo studio. Františka Grubnerová's Gorlitz studio camera, made in Germany, is featured in the exhibition Flashes of Memory - Photography during the Holocaust at Yad Vashem. . . #yadvashem #yadvashemmuseum #photography #photo #photoexhibition #vintagecamera #studiocamera #holocaust #history #holocausthistory #brno #czechoslovakia #theresienstadt #holocaustsurvivor #jerusalem #israel #iwd #iwd2019 #internationalwomensday #women #womensday #womensday2019 #womenhistorymonth
  • Genia Dvorkin was 15 years old when she was incarcerated in the Kovno ghetto in 1942, together with her parents Shmuel and Sonia and her four siblings. Her little brother and sister, Baruch and Nechama, were murdered in one of the Aktions in the Kovno ghetto. About a year after the family's incarceration in the ghetto, Genia, her parents and her two remaining siblings were deported to camps in Estonia. Her father and her brother Ellias were murdered in the Klooga camp. Her mother and her sister Frida were murdered in the Kunda camp. Genia was transferred from one labor camp to another, and was eventually liberated at the Ochsenzoll camp where she worked in a munitions factory. She was the only member of her entire family to survive. . . #yadvashem #shoah #holocaust #holocausthistory #history #jewishhistory #WWII #kovno #worldwar2 #kovnoghetto #klooga #iwd #iwd2019 #internationalwomensday #women #womensday #womensday2019 #womenhistorymonth
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    Genia Dvorkin was 15 years old when she was incarcerated in the Kovno ghetto in 1942, together with her parents Shmuel and Sonia and her four siblings. Her little brother and sister, Baruch and Nechama, were murdered in one of the Aktions in the Kovno ghetto. About a year after the family's incarceration in the ghetto, Genia, her parents and her two remaining siblings were deported to camps in Estonia. Her father and her brother Ellias were murdered in the Klooga camp. Her mother and her sister Frida were murdered in the Kunda camp. Genia was transferred from one labor camp to another, and was eventually liberated at the Ochsenzoll camp where she worked in a munitions factory. She was the only member of her entire family to survive. . . #yadvashem #shoah #holocaust #holocausthistory #history #jewishhistory #WWII #kovno #worldwar2 #kovnoghetto #klooga #iwd #iwd2019 #internationalwomensday #women #womensday #womensday2019 #womenhistorymonth
  • Szeina Katzenelenbiogen, one of most popular theater actors in Eishishok (now Eišiškės, Lithuania). Szeina was fluent in Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Polish and German and was greatly admired by the Germans during the First World War. She owned a hotel that became one of the Gestapo headquarters during the Nazi occupation. Even though the Germans liked her perfect German, good food and comfortable accommodation she was murdered in September 1941. Photographer: I. Kendel . . #yadvashem #shoah #holocaust #holocausthistory #history #jewishhistory #WWII #worldwar1 #worldwar2 #bnw #eishishok #eišiškės #iwd #iwd2019 #internationalwomensday #women #womensday #womensday2019 #womenhistorymonth
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    Szeina Katzenelenbiogen, one of most popular theater actors in Eishishok (now Eišiškės, Lithuania). Szeina was fluent in Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Polish and German and was greatly admired by the Germans during the First World War. She owned a hotel that became one of the Gestapo headquarters during the Nazi occupation. Even though the Germans liked her perfect German, good food and comfortable accommodation she was murdered in September 1941. Photographer: I. Kendel . . #yadvashem #shoah #holocaust #holocausthistory #history #jewishhistory #WWII #worldwar1 #worldwar2 #bnw #eishishok #eišiškės #iwd #iwd2019 #internationalwomensday #women #womensday #womensday2019 #womenhistorymonth
  • The Righteous Among the Nations Cornelia Ten Boom. Casper Ten Boom and his two daughters, Cornelia and Elisabeth, owned a shop where they sold watches and clocks in Haarlem, North Holland. Together they ran a household that became legendary, remembered for being committed to hiding Jews and also for being a major base for resistance activities. On this day, February 28, 1944 the Ten Boom family was betrayed and their home was raided. The people in hiding managed to escape in time. All the members of the Ten Boom family were apprehended and taken to prison for interrogation. Casper, who was aged 84, held out for only 10 days, before he died in the Oranjehotel in Scheveningen, South Holland. In December 1944, Betsie died. Corrie was released two weeks later, and she returned to Haarlem where she stayed until the liberation in May 1945. After the war Corrie wrote several books about her wartime experiences. . . #yadvashem #righteousamongthenations #shoah #holocaust #holocausthistory #haarlem #holland #netherlands #WWII #worldwar2 #bnw
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    The Righteous Among the Nations Cornelia Ten Boom. Casper Ten Boom and his two daughters, Cornelia and Elisabeth, owned a shop where they sold watches and clocks in Haarlem, North Holland. Together they ran a household that became legendary, remembered for being committed to hiding Jews and also for being a major base for resistance activities. On this day, February 28, 1944 the Ten Boom family was betrayed and their home was raided. The people in hiding managed to escape in time. All the members of the Ten Boom family were apprehended and taken to prison for interrogation. Casper, who was aged 84, held out for only 10 days, before he died in the Oranjehotel in Scheveningen, South Holland. In December 1944, Betsie died. Corrie was released two weeks later, and she returned to Haarlem where she stayed until the liberation in May 1945. After the war Corrie wrote several books about her wartime experiences. . . #yadvashem #righteousamongthenations #shoah #holocaust #holocausthistory #haarlem #holland #netherlands #WWII #worldwar2 #bnw
  • On this day, February 27, 1942 Jews in Kovno Ghetto ordered to submit all books in their possession. Over 100,000 books were confiscated, and Jews who were fluent in Hebrew were taken to sort through them. Valuable books were packed into boxes and sent to Germany, while the rest were sent to be processed into paper. Members of the Zionist underground managed to hide some Hebrew books in containers that they buried in the ground. After the war, books from Kovno’s Mapu library were found in Germany, and brought to Israel. Most of them are preserved in the National Library (@nli_israel) in Jerusalem. . . #yadvashem #holocaust #shoah #holocausthistory #kovnoghetto #kovno #books #nationallibrary #worldwar2 #WWII #history #bnw
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    On this day, February 27, 1942 Jews in Kovno Ghetto ordered to submit all books in their possession. Over 100,000 books were confiscated, and Jews who were fluent in Hebrew were taken to sort through them. Valuable books were packed into boxes and sent to Germany, while the rest were sent to be processed into paper. Members of the Zionist underground managed to hide some Hebrew books in containers that they buried in the ground. After the war, books from Kovno’s Mapu library were found in Germany, and brought to Israel. Most of them are preserved in the National Library (@nli_israel) in Jerusalem. . . #yadvashem #holocaust #shoah #holocausthistory #kovnoghetto #kovno #books #nationallibrary #worldwar2 #WWII #history #bnw