{"id":2135,"date":"2017-10-09T10:46:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T10:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2024-11-05T12:03:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T12:03:07","slug":"yad-vashem-the-international-school-for-holocaust-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/2017\/10\/09\/yad-vashem-the-international-school-for-holocaust-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Yad Vashem \u2013 The International School for Holocaust Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post comes from second year undergraduate History student at the University of Gloucestershire Anna Cardy.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Hall of Names, Yad Vashem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over the summer I was fortunate to travel to Israel with the Holocaust Educational Trust as part of the Ambassador Study Visit 2017. I took part in an intensive week of workshops and seminars, as well as excursions to the Old City of Jerusalem, Masada, the Dead Sea and a visit to the British Ambassador.<\/p>\n

The visit itself focused on different themes and areas of study that we may have not previously considered. Throughout the seminars and workshops, we explored the approach of the International School for Holocaust Studies and the schools of thought used, from Judaism and pre-war Jewish life, the persecution and murder of Jewish people, to the topic of perpetrators, as well as the consideration of modern anti-Semitism and Israeli society today.<\/p>\n

Yad Vashem itself opened in 1953 and was set up to commemorate the 6 million Jews who perished in the Shoah and remember the culture that was lost. In addition it \u00a0considers the roles of those who were willing to risk their lives throughout the course of WWII to save others known as \u2018Righteous Among the nations\u2019.<\/p>\n