Yitzhak Arad headed the Holocaust memorial for more than two decades and remained involved in the center as vice-chairman until his death

In Israel TV interview broadcast during prince's funeral ceremony, Evy Cohen describes 'miracle' that saw Princess Alice shelter her grandmother, uncle and aunt from the Nazis

In a letter, president pays tribute to a 'man of honor and duty,' who in 1994 became the first British royal to visit Israel

In poignant 1994 address at Israel's Holocaust museum, honoring his mother as Righteous Among The Nations, Duke of Edinburgh described anti-Semitism at his childhood German school

Duke of Edinburgh broke unofficial boycott of Israel by British royals to attend 1994 ceremony naming Princess Alice as 'righteous among the nations' for hiding 3 Jews from Nazis

Longest-serving consort in British history dies after hospitalization earlier this year; he was the son of Princess Alice, a Greek royal who sheltered Jews during the Holocaust

Public life stops during 2 minutes of silence dedicated to memory of 6 million Jews killed, as daytime ceremonies honoring those persecuted by the Nazi regime get underway

US secretary of state in early message warns that wickedness 'on a grand scale can and does happen,' that 'we honor the lost by remembering and by learning'

Anna Kozminska and her stepmother sheltered 8-year-old Abraham Jablonski during the Nazi occupation of Poland; they also helped save three others

Frieda Kliger, who survived Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbruck and Bergen Belsen camps, as well as the Warsaw Ghetto, celebrates birthday with the help of volunteer groups