08.04.2011                      04.Nisan, 5771

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Yad Vashem requests privately held Holocaust papers

Museum asks people to send artifacts, photographs, documents related to Holocaust so that it can preserve them from deterioration.

The Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum on Thursday asked people to send it artifacts, photographs and documents related to the Holocaust so that it could preserve them from deterioration.
The museum said the project was aimed at preventing such items from being lost so that future generations may see them.
“Personal stories told through artifacts, art work, diaries, letters and post cards add another dimension to education about the Holocaust and remembering it,” Avner Shalev, Yad Vashem chairman, said. “A large part of what we do here at Yav Vashem including our educational and research work is based on such documentation….