On Thursday, January 24, 2008, Yad Vashem will launch a new website about the Holocaust in Arabic.
The Arabic website follows the successful launch of a website in Farsi last year. The website will include the historical narrative of the Holocaust, concepts from the Holocaust, academic articles, artifacts, maps, photos, archival documents and an online video testimony resource center all translated into Arabic, as well as a special multimedia presentation of the Auschwitz Album, with Arabic narration, stories of Righteous Among the Nations- including Muslims from Turkey and Albania- and the movie We Were There, which documents a joint visit of Arabs and Jews to Auschwitz. The site also contains information on the study of Arabic in Theresienstadt, and the Yad Vashem exhibit, BESA: A Code of Honor: Muslim Albanians who Rescued Jews during the Holocaust.
“The Arabic speaking public is substantial, and providing an easily accessible and comprehensive website about the Holocaust in Arabic is crucial. In light of the Holocaust denial and antisemitism that we are witness to in Arabic countries, we want to offer an alternative source of information to moderates in these countries, to provide them with reliable information about the Shoah,” said Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev.
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This is what happens when you have a bunch of Jews with nothing to do.
This is wrong. Just gives them more and better ideas of how to hurt Yidden, R”L.
2., how could it do that? IYH it will make some arabs and iranians see through their government’s lies – or do you think it is in the genes of bnei adam to hate Yidden?
1., the irony is too much.