130,000 Images Online in Yad Vashem Photo Archives

From 130,000 Images Online in Yad Vashem Photo Archives:

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, has made available online 130,000 images from its photo archives. The images include photographs taken in the ghettos, during the deportations, images that illustrate slave labor, the camps, liberation and more. "We are hoping that the public will join us in our ongoing efforts to decipher the pictures and identify the people in them," said Dr. Haim Gertner, Director of the Yad Vashem Archives.

Israeli Website Teaches Iranians about the Holocaust

From Israeli Website Teaches Iranians about the Holocaust:

An Israeli website, written in Persian, is aimed at convincing the people of Iran of the Holocaust's historical truth. The new website, designed by Israel's Holocaust museum, is an attempt to sway Iranian public opinion in the face of a growing nuclear threat. "Ahmadinejad is using Holocaust denial as a concrete tool to pave the way for nuclear strikes," said Avner Shalev, director of Yad Vashem. In the two weeks after its Jan. 27 launch, more than 10,000 people logged on in Iran and hundreds of e-mails flooded in, thanking the museum for providing information that some Iranians found difficult, if not impossible, to access in their country.

Archbishop of Paris visits Israel

Via INN:

Archbishop Andre Vingt-Trois of Paris arrived in Israel on Monday as a guest of the Minister of Tourism Isaac Herzog. During his visit, the Archbishop is expected to sign a Holocaust remembrance treaty at Yad Vashem, meet with Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and visit Bethlehem.

Yad Vashem to collect names from FSU

From Jerusalem Post:

Yad Vashem and the Immigrant Absorption Ministry have embarked on a project to record the names of Soviet-era Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Their emissaries will spend a month attempting to visit the roughly one million Russian immigrants in Israel to create a database of names, the ministry said.