Why Yad Vashem is coming to Germany
Key takeaways
- "Remember" — every child in Israel knows the meaning of this Jewish commandment: Never forget the Holocaust.
- https://p.dw.com/p/5Ep SSThe name Yad Vashem comes from the Bible: 'And to them I will give...
- That is one of the reasons Yad Vashem — the world's largest Holocaust memorial, based in Jerusalem — is establishing a branch in Germany.
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"Remember" — every child in Israel knows the meaning of this Jewish commandment: Never forget the Holocaust. Now Yad Vashem wants to make sure people in Germany remember it too.
https://p.dw.com/p/5Ep SSThe name Yad Vashem comes from the Bible: 'And to them I will give... a monument (Yad) and a name (Shem) — an everlasting name that shall not perish'Image: Fabian Sommer/dpa Advertisement Memory of the Holocaust may be omnipresent in Israel, but it is fading elsewhere, even in the country where it was planned and by whom it was carried out.
Some 80 years after the end of World War II, a 2025 survey by the Jewish Claims Conference found that roughly 10 to 12% of young adults in Germany had never heard the word "Holocaust." The same study found that around 40% of 18- to 29-year-olds in Germany did not know that six million Jews were murdered during the Nazi era.