Word: vashem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel, the group toured Yad Vashem, Jerusalem's graphic memorial to the Holocaust. Passing the photographic murals of atrocities and victims, Professor Yaffa Eliach of Brooklyn College kept remembering the cries of her infant brother as they hid in Vilna until at last he was smothered by adults who feared that he might give them away. "There is an unbridgeable difference between those who went to the camps in the '40s and ourselves today," she insisted. "We have round-trip tickets. They didn't. It is impossible to fully recall the horror...
...Premier's residence. This was the President's first chance to brief the Israeli on Sadat's response to the U.S. compromise proposals. When the two leaders parted after midnight, both looked glum. On Sunday, Carter attended St. Andrew's Church and later paid tribute at the Yad Vashem memorial to the 6 million Jewish victims of Nazism. Wearing a yarmulka, he placed a wreath at the memorial and observed that it was impossible to understand Israel without recognizing what was symbolized there...
...mosque in Old Jerusalem, the third holiest spot in Islam. Then as a gesture to Egypt's large Coptic minority, he stopped at the nearby Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which in Christian tradition sanctifies the spot where Jesus rose from the dead. With his hosts, he visited Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the 6 million victims of Hitler's Holocaust and also laid a wreath at Israel's Unknown Soldier memorial outside the Knesset building. There was a working lunch with Begin and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. Sadat and his host apparently got along well personally. "We like...
Begin impressed White House and State Department aides as witty, bright, shrewd-and tough as nails. The only top member of Carter's entourage who had met him before was Brzezinski. From the Israeli Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, the Premier had brought copies of letters written in 1933 by Brzezinski's father Tadeusz, at the time Polish consul in Leipzig. The elder Brzezinski in those stern memos to German authorities had protested their discrimination against Jews. It was a well-meant but pointed gift, indeed, to the younger Brzezinski, whom the Israelis have tabbed as pro-Arab...
Some Israelis were outraged that Vorster, who was interned by his own country during World War II as a Nazi sympathizer, was permitted to lay a wreath at Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the 6 million dead of the holocaust. Israelis also recalled that before black African friendships dried up, their government consistently opposed apartheid. Premier David Ben-Gurion in 1961 condemned South Africa as a "deplorable regime of racial discrimination." When Israel later decided to give money to black liberation movements, the Pretoria government retaliated by blocking contributions to Israel from South Africa...