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Shoah's modernization
Jerusalem's Yad Vashem plays catch-up to state-of-ttie-art U.S. Holocaust memorials.
INA FRIEDMAN ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT
Jerusalem
Although Israel's attention was sharply focused on the mini-war in the north, Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah, was duly commemorated this week. Among the standard events, however, Yad Vashem, the national remembrance authority, used the day as an opportunity to reveal its plans not just for a major expansion program but for a signal change in its approach to the study of the Shoah.
Called "Yad Vashem 2001," the institution's five-point program outlines an ambitious overhaul of the Yad Vashem complex. It includes:
• The modernization and extension of Yad Vashem's museum from 1,500 to 7,500 sq. metres, including the construction of a special pavilion for temporary exhibits on specific topics or themes. Also to be added to the museum will be a videotheque (viewing centre), to show documentary and other films on the Holocaust, and a multimedia information centre.
• The expansion of the Yad Vashem Archive, whose 40-50 million pages of documentation will be augmented by 10-20 million pages to be gathered fixjm all over the world, plus up to 40,000 videotaped testimonies of survivors (taped in cooperation with the Visual History Foundation created by film director Steven Spielberg, see JB April 12, "Memory on-line") — all to be organized in a computerized data base and housed in a new archive building.
• The construction of a Central School for Holocaust Studies to accommodate the more than 70,000 Israeli students who participate in concentrated seminars each year; the more than 5,000 teachers who take part in 160-hour course on modern didactic methods and state-of-the-art research; the non-Israeli educators (including Polish guides through the concentration camps) who avail themselves of special courses given in seven languages; and the staff of over 80 professionals involved in developing innovative educational
materials.
• The fostering of research by scholars, fix)m all over the world, at the recently established International Centre for Holocaust Studies.
• The integration of the various elements of the Yad Vashem indoor-outdoor complex through the construction of a new, en-
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larged entrance plaza and a Visitors' Centre to accommodate the 1.3 million people who currently visit Yad Vashem each year and the 2 million annual visitors anticipated by the year 2000.
The master plan for extending and reorganizing the campus on the Mount of Remembrance was revealed by David Reznik, a recipient of the Israel Prize for architecture, who has placed the emphasis on "bridging the chasm between the everyday world and the sanctity of this memorial site."
A third of the $50 million budget for the combined project will be provided by the Israeli government, the rest to be raised by public bodies such as the Claims Conference, the Yad Vashem Societies in Israel and abroad, and other benefactors. Construction of the renovated and expanded museum, which will begin at the end of this year, is slated to be completed by 2000 or 2001.
Challenged by the emergence of Holocaust museums in the United States, Yad Vashem (which was first established in the 1950s) has essentially been forced to play catch-up with these more modem and technologically advanced institutions.
But the spurt of energy disclosed this week has been generated by more than just the greying of Yad Vashem proper. The new, far more dynamic approach sets out fix)m the premise