Holocaust survivor who led Yad Vashem memorial dies at 94
by The Associated Press
Last Updated May 6, 2021 at 3:44 pm EDT
JERUSALEM — Yitzhak Arad, a Holocaust survivor and scholar who was the director of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial for more than two decades, has died at the age of 94, the centre said Thursday.
Arad served as chairman of Yad Vashem from 1972 to 1993 and remained involved in the centre until his final days, serving as the vice-chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, it said.
He was born Yitzhak Rudnicki in 1926 in a town that was then in Poland and is now part of Lithuania.