单词 | yad vashem |
释义 | Yad Vashemn. In Israel: the official remembrance authority for the Holocaust and its victims. Also: the memorial (a complex of museums, monuments, and education and research centres) to the victims of the Holocaust, established by the authority in 1953 on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem. ΚΠ 1953 tr. Laws State Israel VII. 119 The task of Yad Va-Shem is to gather in to the homeland material regarding all those members of the Jewish people who laid down their lives.., and to perpetuate their memory. 1972 F. Forsyth Odessa File 306 The mausoleum of Yad Vashem,..the shrine to six million of his fellow Jews who died in the holocaust. 1990 Keesings Contemp. Arch. (BNC) Oct. In Israel, however, a statement made during a ceremony at the Yad Vashem national shrine to Jewish victims of the Nazi holocaust, declared ‘We are filled with deep anxiety.’ 2002 Jewish Chron. 2 Aug. 26/4 However, the rescue operation would not have been possible without the help of another non-Jewish American, Varian Frey, who was head of the emergency rescue committee and the only ‘Righteous’ American to have been honoured by Yad Vashem. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1953 |
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