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Yitzhak Arad, Jewish partisan who fought the Nazis in Lithuania and was the long-time chairman of Yad Vashem – obituary Telegraph Obituaries © Tsafrir Abayov/AP Jewish Second World War veterans Chaim Erez, left, Zvi Kan-Tor, and Yitzhak Arad inside the unfinished museum honoring Jewish war veterans, in Latrun, Israel - Tsafrir Abayov/AP Yitzhak Arad, the Holocaust historian, who has died aged 94, was the director of Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial from 1972 to 1993. At the end of July 1941, German troops entered Arad’s native town, Swieciany, located 50 miles north of Vilnius, which had a Jewish population of 3,000. Fifteen-year-old Yitzhak, along with a small group of young people, managed to escape and fled to neighbouring Belarus. The Jews who were left behind in Swieciany were taken to an isolated military camp and shot; only 250 skilled workers – tailors, shoemakers, carpenters – survived, forced to work for the German invaders.

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