JERUSALEM (AP) 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 center said Thursday.
Holocaust survivor Yitzhak Arad, who led Yad Vashem memorial, dies at 94
By The Associated PressUpdated May 7, 2021, 5:14 p.m.
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In this Tuesday, April 18, 2017 file photo, Chaim Erez, left, Zvi Kan-Tor, center, and Yitzhak Arad stood inside the unfinished museum honoring Jewish World War II veterans, in Latrun, Israel. 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.Tsafrir Abayov/Associated Press
JERUSALEM â Yitzhak Arad, a Holocaust survivor and scholar who was the director of Israelâs Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial for more than two decades, has died at the age of 94, the center said Thursday.
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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 center said Thursday.
Arad served as chairman of Yad Vashem from 1972 to 1993 and remained involved in the center 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.
His parents were among the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. He managed to escape and joined the Soviet partisans in 1943, at the age of 16. He remained with them until the end of the war, fighting the Nazis in Belarus and Lithuania.
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.