Personal collection of Holocaust historian Yaffa Eliach dedicated at Yad Vashem Eliach's work focused on the events and victims of the pre-World War II life in her birthplace, the Lithuanian town of Eishishok.
Yad Vashem statement stresses Holocaust was ‘unprecedented genocide of six million Jews’ The statement comes in the wake of a controversy over the White House's Holocaust commemoration statement that failed to mention Jews.
Pendant uncovered at Sobibor may have belonged to teen relative of Anne Frank The pendant was dropped by its owner or someone in possession of the jewelry on the "Pathway to Heaven," the path along which Jewish victims were forced to walk to the gas chambers.