Israel
TitelIsrael
Auteur
Call number940.53180922/0099
Objectnummer08285L
Plaats van uitgaveHamburg, Germany
Jaar van uitgave
2010
Pagina's61-63
MateriaalArtikel
ReeksNeuengammer Studienhefte ; 03
NotesArticle from the Proceedings of an international conference held at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, 5 to 7 May 2010 pp61-63
Beschrijving
When the state was founded around 650,000 Jews lived in Israel, one-third of them survivors of the Holocaust. Their suffering was largely ignored in the early years. The Eichmann trial in 1961 was a turning point. In 1951 the Knesset agreed to the establishment of a national Shoah memorial day and in 1954 the Yad Vashem memorial was established at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Another memorial site is Beith Lohamei Haghetaot