A street in New York City is named “Yad Vashem Way,” after Israel’s Holocaust memorial and museum.
The street naming takes place as part of this week’s events for Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The street is on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, on 67th Street, between 3rd Avenue and 2nd Avenue, near Park East Synagogue.
Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan, Israel Consul General Ofir Akunis and local leaders including New York Congressional Rep. Jerry Nadler are in attendance.
Park East’s head rabbi, Holocaust survivor Arthur Schneier, calls the street naming “a very personal and emotional moment.”
“I could have been one of the one and a half million children who never made it,” he says. “People will walk by and see this sign, Yad Vashem Way. I hope they will learn more by going to Jerusalem,” where the Yad Vashem museum and memorial is located.
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