Editing Yad Vashem (section)

==Objectives==
[[File:Eternal Flame and Concentration Camp Victims Memorial.jpg|thumb|The [[eternal flame]]]]

The aims of Yad Vashem are education, research and documentation, and commemoration.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yadvashem.org/education.html |title=The International School for Holocaust Studies |publisher=.yadvashem.org |access-date=24 April 2012}}</ref> Yad Vashem organizes professional development courses for educators both in Israel and throughout the world; develops age-appropriate study programs, curricula, and educational materials for Israeli and foreign schools in order to teach students of all ages about the Holocaust; holds exhibitions about the Holocaust; collects the names of Holocaust victims;<ref>[http://www.yadvashem.org/archive/hall-of-names.html About: The Central Database of Shoah Victims Names] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171218090828/http://www.yadvashem.org/archive/hall-of-names.html |date=18 December 2017 }}</ref> collects photos, documents, and personal artifacts; and collects [[Pages of Testimony]] memorializing victims of the Holocaust.<ref>[https://yvng.yadvashem.org/ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names], on Yad Vashem website</ref> Yad Vashem seeks to preserve the memory and names of the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, and the numerous Jewish communities destroyed during that time. It holds ceremonies of remembrance and commemoration; supports Holocaust research projects; develops and coordinates symposia, workshops, and international conferences; and publishes research, memoirs, documents, albums, and diaries related to the Holocaust.<ref>{{cite book |url={{Google books |plainurl=yes |id=EUzcIZklD3oC |page=7 }} |title=Our Memory of the Past and for the Future: Based on the Proceedings of an International Forum in Jerusalem, Israel, 15–21 September 2003 |publisher=Council of Europe |year=2005 |access-date=25 February 2014}}</ref> Yad Vashem also honors non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.

The International Institute for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem, founded in 1993, offers guides and seminars for students, teachers, and educators, and develops pedagogic tools for use in the classroom. Yad Vashem trains thousands of domestic and foreign teachers every year.<ref>[https://www.yadvashem.org/education/seminars.html International Seminars at Yad Vashem]</ref><ref>[https://www.yadvashem.org/education/about-school.html About the International School for Holocaust Studies]</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/international/21584008-study-holocaust-expanding-worldwidefor-differing-reasons-bearing-witness-ever |title=Remembering the Holocaust: Bearing witness ever more |publisher=Economist.com |date=24 August 2013 |access-date=25 February 2014}}</ref>

Yad Vashem operates a web site in several languages, including English,<ref>[https://www.yadvashem.org/ Yad Vashem website] in English</ref> German,<ref>[https://www.yadvashem.org/de.html Yad Vashem website in German]</ref> Hebrew,<ref>[https://www.yadvashem.org/he.html Yad Vashem website in Hebrew]</ref> [[Persian language|Persian]],<ref>[https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/fa/index.asp Yad Vashem website in Persian]</ref> French,<ref>[https://www.yadvashem.org/fr.html Yad Vashem website in French]</ref>  Russian,<ref>[https://www.yadvashem.org/ru.html Yad Vashem website in Russian]</ref> Spanish<ref>[https://www.yadvashem.org/es.html Yad Vashem website in Spanish]</ref> and Arabic.<ref>[https://www.yadvashem.org/ar.html Yad Vashem website in Arabic]</ref> In 2013 Yad Vashem launched an online campaign in Arabic, promoting Yad Vashem's website. The campaign reached over 2.4 million Arabic speakers from around the globe, and the traffic to Yad Vashem's website was tripled.<ref>{{cite web|author= Ofer Aderet |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/.premium-1.573513 |title=Yad Vashem finds Muslim clicks on Facebook |publisher=haaretz.com |date=11 February 2014 |access-date=21 September 2014}}</ref>

The institution's policy is that the Holocaust "cannot be compared to any other event". In 2009 Yad Vashem fired a docent for comparing the trauma Jews suffered in the Holocaust to the trauma Palestinians suffered during [[1947–1949 Palestine war]], including the [[Deir Yassin massacre]].<ref>Yoav Stern. "Yad Vashem fires employee who compared Holocaust to Nakba". ''Haaretz'', 23 April 2009. {{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/yad-vashem-fires-employee-who-compared-holocaust-to-nakba-1.274624 |title=Yad Vashem Fires Employee Who Compared Holocaust to Nakba |newspaper=Haaretz |access-date=28 December 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150729005750/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/yad-vashem-fires-employee-who-compared-holocaust-to-nakba-1.274624 |archive-date=29 July 2015 }}</ref>

===''Yad Vashem Studies''===
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''Yad Vashem Studies'' is a peer-reviewed semi-annual scholarly journal on the Holocaust. Published since 1957, it appears in both English and Hebrew editions.<ref name=YVStudies>{{cite web |url=http://www.yadvashem.org/research/about/studies |title=Yad Vashem Studies |publisher=The International Institute for Holocaust Research |access-date=23 February 2017}}</ref>