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People visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, on January 9, 2025. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
May 29, 2026, 6:51 am
Yad Vashem to open Holocaust education center in Munich, first outside Israel
‘In a world without Holocaust survivors, one needs new ways to tell the story,’ says head of Berlin-based Friends of Yad Vashem; extension also planned in Germany’s Leipzig
By Zev Stub and JTA
Illustrative: Visitors are seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on May 2, 2024, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 3, 2025, 3:35 pm
Yad Vashem says it has compiled 5 million names of Jews murdered in Holocaust
Milestone achieved with the help of survivors and relatives worldwide; most of the remaining million names will likely never be found, the Holocaust memorial center says
By Zev Stub
An actor at Yad Vashem's new Touching Memory theater (Yad Vashem)
April 10, 2025, 4:31 pm
With ‘engaging’ approach to Holocaust storytelling, Yad Vashem targets next generation
A new audiovisual experience and live theater at the national museum and memorial raise questions about Shoah education after survivors pass on
By Zev Stub
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Yad Vashem street naming in New York City
January 31, 2025, 1:07 pm
New York City honors Holocaust Center and survivors with a street naming
Yad Vashem Way is the initiative of Mayor Eric Adams and Council Member Keith Powers, with the City Council’s endorsement.
By Michele Chabin
Yad Vashem director Dani Dayan on January 9, 2025, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
January 27, 2025, 4:17 pm
Yad Vashem works on innovating Holocaust remembrance methods as survivors dwindle
With Holocaust survivors aging and dying out, Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan says in a few years, there will be no one left to give firsthand testimonies
By Ruth Eglash
Chairman of Yad Vashem Dani Dayan at Auschwitz to observe the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation, January 27, 2025, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Yad Vashem)
January 27, 2025, 4:09 pm
What Matters Now to Yad Vashem head Dani Dayan: What to do when ‘friends’ disappoint
The chairman of the World Holocaust Remembrance Center takes a stand against rampant antisemitism and Holocaust denial and the tide change occurring in Europe
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Yad Vashem director Dani Dayan on January 9, 2025, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
January 27, 2025, 12:48 pm
‘Insult to victims of Nazism’: Yad Vashem head condemns Musk speech to German far-right
Dani Dayan says failure to acknowledge Germany’s past is clear danger to its democratic future after prominent Trump ally tells AfD rally there’s too much focus on ‘past guilt’
By ToI Staff
Yellow badges and a piece of luggage are displayed at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, July 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
July 8, 2024, 6:26 pm
Yad Vashem launches new conservation facility to restore and preserve artifacts
Before vast new multistory building opened, says Museum chairman Dani Dayan, ‘it was very difficult to exhibit our treasures that were kept in our vaults. They were kind of secret’
By SHLOMO MOR and Maya Alleruzzo
Yad Vashem chief Dani Dayan in the Hall of Names at the Jerusalem museum, undated. (Alex Kolomoisky)
April 27, 2024, 10:43 am
Yad Vashem to Columbia president: Take a moral stand against ‘eliminate Israel’ ideology
Dayan tells Shafik to decide if Israel’s elimination can be ‘a legitimate cause’ in syllabi, lectures, events; draws line from NY school to Heidelberg University in 1930s Germany
By ToI Staff
Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan seen during a visit of Britain's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial's museum in Jerusalem on September 11, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 23, 2023, 6:50 pm
Yad Vashem chief rejects comparison between Hamas atrocities, Holocaust
Dani Dayan says while both crimes were horrific, Jewish people now have an army that can actively defend them and make the enemy ‘pay the price’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan wears a yellow Star of David that reads "Never Again" in honor of those killed in the unprecedented assault by Hamas, which triggered an ongoing war, as he addresses members of the UN Security Council at United Nations headquarters October 30, 2023. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP)
October 31, 2023, 7:10 am
Erdan tells UN he’ll don yellow Star of David until it condemns Hamas; Yad Vashem fumes
Provocative pledge to Security Council comes amid growing global frustration with UN body, which hasn’t adopted a single resolution on Israel-Hamas war; Foreign Ministry also irked
By AFP and Jacob Magid
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, October 24, 2023. (Seth Wenig/AP)
October 25, 2023, 11:51 pm
UN chief doubles down on Hamas remarks, decries ‘misrepresentations’
Guterres stresses Palestinian grievances don’t justify October 7 massacre, a day after saying it didn’t take place in ‘vacuum’; Israel’s UN envoy rejects clarification
By Agencies, ToI Staff and Michael Bachner
UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan, left, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, center, and Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan browse the Yad Vashem Book of Names of Holocaust Victims Exhibit at United Nations headquarters, January 26, 2023. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
October 25, 2023, 3:13 pm
Israel halts UN staff visas as officials pan Guterres’s ‘truly insane’ Hamas remarks
After UN chief says terrorist massacres ‘didn’t happen in vacuum,’ Foreign Ministry says words ‘tarnish both him and organization he heads’; Edelstein says they fan antisemitism
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
US President Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, September 20, 2023. (AP/Susan Walsh)
September 21, 2023, 6:52 pm
Prominent Zionists laud Biden’s remark that no Jew anywhere is safe without Israel
Abe Foxman, Natan Sharansky and Dani Dayan say president’s unprecedented statement shows understanding of how most Jews feel, though it angers some Jews more critical of Israel
By Canaan Lidor
Yad Vashem chief Dani Dayan in the Hall of Names at the Jerusalem museum, undated. (Alex Kolomoisky)
September 6, 2023, 4:56 am
Yad Vashem museum looks to drop American charity that provides 30% of its budget
US society for Israel’s main Holocaust museum says chairman Dani Dayan seeks to ‘raid’ its endowment; Yad Vashem cites efficiency plans and need ‘to maximize global mission’
By Canaan Lidor
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