‘This street sign is more than a name — it is a powerful symbol of our shared responsibility to preserve Holocaust memory and combat the disturbing rise of hatred and intolerance,’ Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan said at the unveiling ceremony on Thursday.
New York City honored Yad Vashem on Thursday with the unveiling of a street named after Israel’s national memorial to the Holocaust in Jerusalem, in tribute to its commitment to combating antisemitism and preserving Holocaust remembrance.
The new co-named street Yad Vashem Way is located at East 67th Street and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan’s Upper East Side neighborhood, where a large number of Holocaust survivors who immigrated to the US after World War II now reside with their families.
It is also in the neighborhood of Rabbi Arthur Schneier’s iconic Park East Synagogue. New York City is home to one of the largest Holocaust survivor communities outside of Israel.