Yad Vashem Publications

Edited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen

Edited by Dan Michman and Robert Rozett

The Holocaust unquestionably shattered most normative frameworks and cast the struggle for survival in its starkest form. Yet despite this, the Holocaust did not necessarily lead Jews to act as lone wolves, caring only about their own survival. This volume demonstrates that Jewish solidarity during the Holocaust is a multifaceted, multilayered issue, replete with complexities and shadings that reflect the diversity of Jewishness and Jewish existence, as well as the unprecedented dire situations that challenged it, and while solidarity was not a given and may not have predominated, it did not cease to exist.

Edited by Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking

Edited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen

Charlotte Holzer

Rika Benveniste

Dan Michman

Yehuda Bacon, Edited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen and Dorota Julia Nowak

Emanuele Artom, Edited by Guri Schwarz

Danna J. Azrieli

Upon arriving at the kibbutz, after years of running and living in a constant state of fear and anxiety, I finally felt that I could unburden my heart and mind. I had dreamed of the day I would arrive, alive, in Eretz Israel. The constant stress of the last few years was made easier by my constant desire to achieve that goal. So, when I first arrived in the kibbutz dining hall, it was as if all my dreams had come true.

David J. Azrieli was born in 1922 in Maków Mazowiecki, Poland. Written by his daughter Danna, this gripping account of survival during World War II describes David’s extraordinary travels, always just one step ahead of life-threatening danger, which took him to the Soviet-occupied zones of Poland and later to Ukraine, Tashkent, and Buchara. He subsequently served in the Anders Army, before making his way from Baghdad to the frontiers of British-occupied Palestine.

The memoir chronicles David J. Azrieli’s arrival in Palestine, his studies at the Technion in Haifa, his experiences as a soldier in the War of Independence, and his realization that most of his immediate family had perished in the Holocaust. Azrieli finally settled in Canada in 1954. There he married his wife, Stephanie, and together they raised four children—Rafi, Sharon, Naomi, and Danna. This story of survival is all the more remarkable given Azrieli’s later achievements as a successful real estate developer and philanthropist. One of the economic giants of the Jewish world, his many developments changed the face of Israel and stand as a striking testament to the strength and courage of a boy whom Hitler could not defeat. The highlight of his activities is the establishment of the Canadian and Israeli Azrieli Foundations, which focus on improving the lives of present and future generations through education, research, healthcare, and arts.

Edited by Ewa Koźmińska-Frejlak

Ilya Gerber, Edited by Lea Prais

Edited by Christoph Dieckmann and Arkadi Zeltser

Edited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen

Dirk Rupnow

Christian Ingrao

Curator: Haviva Peled-Carmeli, Deputy Curators: Michael Tal, Sara Shor

The Yad Vashem Synagogue catalogue - The artifacts displayed in the Yad Vashem Synagogue are a few of the thousands of items preserved in Yad Vashem's collections that tell the story of the Jewish people – a panoramic mosaic of memories depicting the fate of individuals, families and communities during the Holocaust.  The artifacts in our collections tell stories interwoven with flashes of fear, despair and loss, but also moments of determination, pity, hope, courage and love.  These stories evoke empathy with the fate of the victims, and place the Jewish individual at the heart of the narrative that unfolds in the Holocaust History Museum.  The significance of these artifacts is hoin ned by their integration the vast, complex fabric that shapes collective memory from countless fragments of personal recollection.  The display area and the space currently used as the Synagogue combine to depict the lost Jewish life in the face of its continuity today.  These artifacts bear mute testimony to the history and legacy of individuals and communities during the Holocaust that we seek to commemorate and to impart to future generations.

Yehuda Bacon, Edited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen and Dorota Julia Nowak

Editor: Tikva Fatal-Knaani | Hebrew edition editor: Joseph Kermish

Edited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen

Robert Savosnick | As told to Hans Melien

Executive Editor: Andrea Löw; Edited by: Susanne Heim, Ulrich Herbert,Hans-Dieter Kreikamp, Horst Möller,Gertrud Pickhan, Dieter Pohl, Hartmut Weber and Andreas Wirsching; English edition also edited by: Michael Hollmann, Sybille Steinbacher,and Simone Walther-von Jena;

Executive Editor: Susanne Heim; Edited by: Götz Aly, Ulrich Herbert, Hans-Dieter Kreikamp, Horst Möller, Dieter Pohl, and Hartmut Weber; English edition also edited by: Michael Hollmann, Sybille Steinbacher, Simone Walther-von Jena, and Andreas Wirsching;

Executive Editor: Wolf Gruner; Edited by: Götz Aly, Wolf Gruner, Susanne Heim, Ulrich Herbert,Hans-Dieter Kreikamp, Horst Möller,Dieter Pohl, and Hartmut Weber; English edition also edited by: Michael Hollmann, Sybille Steinbacher,Simone Walther-von Jena, and Andreas Wirsching;