SURVIVOR STORIES OF FAITH, HOPE AND RESILIENCE

Fourteen year old Ruth Brand fasted on Yom Kippur when she was in Birkenau. Yehudit Kleinman, a Jewish child hidden in a convent in Milan chose to go with two strangers who promised to take her to the Land of Israel. After surviving the Warsaw ghetto revolt and several camps, Frieda Klieger got married in one of the first weddings to take place after liberation in Bergen Belsen. The stories of the survivors of the Holocaust are paradigms of faith, hope and resilience. The human and universal values they exemplify offer meaning for each and every one of us.
This lecture will be delivered by Ephraim Kaye. After 32 years of educating thousands of students and teachers around the world through Yad Vashem Seminars, Ephraim will be retiring from his position as Director of the Jewish World & International Seminars Department in Yad Vashem's International School for Holocaust Studies. Ephraim's influence extends far beyond the thousands of students and teachers that attended his seminars, in that his influence is transmitted exponentially through each person he has taught. Ephraim's dedication and contributions to the field of Holocaust education are greatly valued by Yad Vashem. At this bittersweet time, we would like to take this opportunity to wish Ephraim well in his retirement from Yad Vashem.