Jews Rescued Jews now part of Yad Vashem Exhibit

Jerusalem, March 2005. In this photograph of a JRJ Executive Committee meeting, Haim Roet and Marianne Picard hold two books recently published by Yad Vashem with contents from the new Yad Vashem Museum. Both books deal with the new category of Jews Rescued Jews. One room in the new Yad Vashem does as well.

In spite of this partial recognition, Yad Vashem continues to not fully recognize Jews who rescued fellow Jews, for example in their curriculum contents.

Back row (from Left): Ehud Loeb, saved by OSE in France. Mirjam Whartman, saved by Max Leons, Dutch Jew in the Netherlands. Chana Arnon, from Netherlands, fled to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) with parents, in camps there. Ilana Drukker, saved in Netherlands. Esther Reiss-Mossel originally from Holland, rescued in Bergen Belsen by a Jewish couple who ran an orphanage there. 

Seated from Left: Rene Lichtman, VP of WFJCSH, saved in France, represents USA and WFJCSH on JRJC. Haim Roet, founder and "leader" of JRJC - Israel, also saved by Max Leons in the Netherlands and Marianne Picard, rescued by OSE.