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Yad Vashem and Google Partnership for Accessing Photo Collection On-line Print E-mail
2011-01-27

Yad Vashem and Google have announced a  partnership where Yad Vashem's photo
collection --130,000 photos--will be made accessible and viewable in full
resolution on-line.  This is the first step of bringing Yad Vashem's archive
online overtime,
 
To read the Yad Vashem press release click here.
 
Starting today, a user can directly access over 130,000 full-resolution
photographs via the Google search page. Click here

Two years ago, Yad Vashem launched a YouTube channel to
showcase a series of videos of Holocaust survivor testimonials.
To see the video click here .
 
Thank you to Dick Eastman and the Eastman Online Genealogy Newsletter for
first alerting me to this announcement
 
Jan Meisels Allen
IAJGS Director-at-Large
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee