Prof. Bob Moore, University of Sheffield, presenting his lecture, “Structures of Rescue: key Determinants in the Survival of Jews in Western Europe During the Holocaust”
Prof. Lenore Weitzman, George Madison University, presenting her paper on “Saving Lives: The Activities of the Bund, Zegota, Dror and Hashomer HaTza’ir to Help Jews Escape, Hide and Pass on the Aryan Side in Poland” during the International Conference 19-21 December 2010
Ihediwa Nkemjika Chimee, PhD candidate – University of Nigeria, speaking at the International Conference on Hiding Sheltering and Borrowing Identities, 19-21 December 2010
Prof. Jan Grabowski, University of Toronto, speaking on “Failed Attempts at Rescue” at the International Conference on 19 December 2010
Prof. Jeffrey Burds, Northeastern University, delivering his presentation “Shmal’tsovniki: Bounty Hunters in German-Occupied Galicia, 1941-1944”

The International Institute for Holocaust Research is active in developing and coordinating international research; planning and undertaking scholarly projects; organizing symposia, workshops and international conferences. It has been the tradition at Yad Vashem for over forty years to biennially host a major international conference. Throughout the year the Institute hosts smaller international conferences as well as national conferences. Yad Vashem’s conferences are convened through the generous support of the Gertner Center for International Conferences and the Gutwirth Family Fund.

• 17-20 December 2012 
  The End of 1942 – A Turning Point in World War II and in the Comprehension of the Final Solution?
• December 2010
  Hiding, Sheltering and Borrowing Identities as Avenues of Rescue During the Holocaust
  The publication of the conference anthology is forthcoming.
• October ‏2010
  The Aftermath of the Holocaust – The Polish Case 1944-2010 to be Convened
• December 2008
  The Holocaust, the Survivors, and the State of Israel
• May 2008 Joint Conference
  Yad Vashem, University of Tirana, and Bar-Ilan University
  Albania, the Albanians and the Holocaust: An Extraordinary Mini-Case in Context
• April 2008 Joint Conference
  Yad Vashem and the Ben Zvi Institute
  North Africa and Its Jews During the Second World War:  New Research
• January 2007
  The Holocaust, Medicine and Medical Ethics
• December 2006
  Holocaust and Justice  – Post-War Trials and the Holocaust:  Representation, Awareness and Historiography
• November 2004
  Holocaust Research in Context  – The Emergence of Research Centers and Approaches 
• March 2004
  Emanuel Ringelblum  – The Man and the History
• December 2002
  Confronting History  – The Historical Commissions of Inquiry
• May 2001
  The Return of the Jews in Their Countries of Origin 
• March 2000
  The Impact of the Holocaust on Contemporary Society
• August-September 1999
  Europe Under Nazi Rule and the Holocaust
• January 1999
  The Holocaust and Jewish History
• February 1997
  German Society’s Responses to Nazi Anti-Jewish Policy, 1933-1941
• October 1995
  The Jewish People at the End of World War II
• June 1993
  The Jewish People in the 20th Century  – Fifty Years After the Holocaust
• January 1993
  Major Changes Within the Jewish People in the Wake of the Holocaust
• October 1991
  Operation Barbarossa to Wannsee, June 1941 – January 1942
• March 1989
  European Jewry in the Face of Fascism and Nazism
• October 1985
  She’erit Hapletah, 1944 –1948
• March 1983
  The Historiography of the Holocaust Period
• January 1980
  The Nazi Concentration Camps  – Structure and Aims, the Image of the Prisoner, The Jews in the Camps
• April 1977
  Patterns in Jewish Leadership in Nazi Germany, 1933 –1945
• April 1974
  Rescue Attempts During the Holocaust
• April 1968
  Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust