Garden of Yad Vashem

Brazilian edition

book about Moshe Bejski

The book

Sao Paulo do Brazil, 24 May 2003, Centro da Cultura Judaica, Presentation of Gabriele Nissim’s book, translated into Portuguese and published in Brazil, about Moshe Bejski’s life and the Yad Vashem Commission of the Righteous. Title: O Tribunal do Bem. Italia Nova Press.

Contributors: Rabbi H. Sobel and Prof. A. Lombardi

29 May 2004

In Yad Vashem

the first "Garden of the Righteous"

The Garden of the Righteous in Jerusalem was set up in 1962 at Yad Vashem's Mausoleum, the Holocaust remembrance place, in compliance with point 9 of its establishing law, approved by the Israeli Parliament in 1953, providing the following:

"Hereby the law establishes the Yad Vashem Foundation in Jerusalem, in order to commemorate (…) the Righteous among the nations, who have risked their lives to help the Jews."

To commemorate the Righteous among the nations they choose to plant carob trees. Hence the creation of the Avenue of the Righteous, that would later become a garden with the same name.
In 1963 the Israeli authorities set up the Righteous Commission to choose the people to bestow the honours on and dedicate the trees to. In its activities the Commission honoured nearly 20,000 Righteous.