Only a few hundred of those deportees survived, Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Centre says.
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The Seminar was also attended by Mr. Paul Schaffer, Holocaust survivor and Honorary President of Yad Vashem-France.
Los principales protectores de Rosian Zerner figuran en la Lista de Justos de las Naciones de Yad Vashem.
Such discussions have taken place between Vatican scholars and Yad Vashem over the years, most recently in March.
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Hagel's first order of business upon arrival in Jerusalem was a guided tour of the Yad Vashem Holocaust history museum.
Yad Vashem lists 20 Bulgarians among its "Righteous Among the Nations" - individuals who acted to protect Jews from the Holocaust.
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Edelman was born in 1921, according to Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust museum.
Pope Benedict will not visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum during his visit to Jerusalem though he will visit its adjacent memorial section.
It was not until 1983 that the Polish authorities allowed her to travel to Jerusalem, where a tree was planted in her honour at Yad Vashem.
On Monday he was met at the airport by Israel's president, Shimon Peres, and prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, before travelling to Jerusalem and a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial site.
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Obama also visited Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem, and traveled to Sderot, a town in southern Israel that had suffered from missiles fired from inside the nearby Gaza Strip.
As bad luck or perverse planning would have it, the incident came just before a ceremony at the Yad Vashem memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Jerusalem, on Holocaust Day.
Indeed, the Polish constitute the largest group of the Righteous Among the Nations, the honorary title granted to all non-Jews who saved Jewish lives by Yad Vashem, the organisation charged with commemorating the Holocaust.
Two speakers advocated for a strong focus on historical facts in education: Georges Bensoussan of the Shoah Memorial in Paris and Professor Dina Porat, Chief-Historian of Yad Vashem and professor at Tel Aviv University.
Other Google Cultural Institute projects have included showcasing the Dead Sea Scrolls, presenting thousands of works of art online through the Art Project, and the digitization of the Yad Vashem Holocaust materials.
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Mr Obama later visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, which he said illustrated the depravity to which man could sink but also served as a reminder of the "righteous among nations who refused to be bystanders".
He made a historic apology for the wrongs done to Jews by Catholics over the centuries, and visited the Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem and the Western Wall on his trip to the Middle East in 2000.
This was Mr. Bush's first visit to Israel as president, and he capped it with an emotional tour of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, where he said it was a sobering reminder that evil must be resisted.
Three exhibitions are also presented on this occasion: "Resistance and Rescue in Denmark", by the Shoah Memorial, "Rescue 1943", by the National Archives of Bulgaria and Yad Vashem, and "Rescue: protecting Humanity during the Holocaust", based on Holocaust survivors testimonies, by the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute.
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The Director General met with the five laureates of the Eighth Edition of the Holocaust Essay Contest, organised by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and the Association "Verbe et Lumiere, " in presence of Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Dr. Ilya Altman, Director of the Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Centre, together with Mr. Paul Schaffer, Holocaust survivor and Honorary President of Yad Vashem-France.
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