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lthough Israel's attention indoor-outdoor complex through
was sharply focused on the construction of a new, en-
the mini-war in the north, larged entrance plaza and a Vis-
Holocaust and Heroism itors' Center to accommodate the
Remembrance Day, or Yom 1.3 million people who currently
HaShoah, was duly commemo- visit Yad Vashem each year and
rated this week. Among the stan- the 2 million annual visitors an-
dard events, however, Yad ticipated by the year 2000.
The master plan for extending
Vashem, the national remem-
brance authority, used the day and reorganizing the campus on
as an opportunity to reveal its the Mount of Remembrance was
plans not just for a major expan- revealed by David Reznik, a re-
sion program but for a signal cipient of the Israel Prize for ar-
change in its approach to the chitecture, who has placed the
emphasis on "bridging the chasm
study of the Shoah.
Called "Yad Vashem 2001," between the everyday world and
the institution's five-point pro- the sanctity of this memorial
gram outlines an ambitious over- site."
A third of the $50 million bud-
haul of the Yad Vashem complex.
get for the combined project will
It includes:
* The modernization and ex- be provided by the Israeli gov-
tension of Yad Vashem's muse- ernment, the rest to be raised by
um from 1,500 to 7,500 sq. public bodies such as the Claims
meters, including the construc- Conference, the Yad Vashem So-
tion of a special pavilion for tem- cieties in Israel and abroad, and
porary exhibits on specific topics other benefactors. Construction
or themes. Also to be added to the of the renovated and expanded
museum will be a videotheque museum, which will begin at the
(viewing center), to show docu- end of this year, is slated to be
mentary and other films on the completed by 2000 or 2001.
Challenged by the emergence
Holocaust, and a multimedia in-
of Holocaust museums in the
formation center.
* The expansion of the Yad United States, Yad Vashem
Vashem Archive, whose 40-50 (which was first established in
million pages of documentation the 1950s) has essentially been
will be augmented by 10-20 mil- forced to play catch up with these
lion pages to be gathered from all
over the world, plus up to 40,000
video-taped testimonies of sur-
vivors (taped in cooperation with
the Visual History Foundation
created by film director Steven
Spielberg) — all to be organized
in a computerized data base and more modem and technological-
housed in a new archive build- ly advanced institutions. But the
spurt of energy disclosed this
ing.
* The construction of a Central week has been generated by
School for Holocaust Studies to more than just the graying of Yad
accommodate the more than Vashem proper. The new, far
70,000 Israeli students who par- more dynamic approach sets out
ticipate in concentrated seminars from the premise that in an age
each year; the more than 5,000 of instant communication, "the
teachers who take part in 160- benefits garnered from the free
hour course on modem didactic flow of heterogeneous informa-
methods and state-of-the-art re- tion — which can be over-
search; the non-Israeli educators whelming on a day-to-day basis
(including Polish guides through — are counterbalanced by an un-
the concentration camps) who avoidable side effect."
Many educators have already
avail themselves of special cours-
es given in seven languages; and identified this drawback as the
the staff of over 80 professionals creation of short attention spans.
involved in developing innova- Avner Shalev, the 57-year-old
chairman of Yad Vashem — an
tive educational materials.
* The fostering of research by institution dedicated to remem-
scholars, from all over the world, brance — speaks of it in terms of
at the recently established In- "the creation of short memories."
ternational Center for Holocaust And fearful that "the third gen-
eration which bears the duty to
Studies.
* The integration of the vari- remember may be entering an
ous elements of the Yad Vashem GREENING page 76
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A 21 st-century
challenge: short
attention spans.