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Last update - 00:00 07/02/2007
Yad Vashem's Farsi-language Web site proves to be a big success
By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondent

About 20,000 people from throughout the world, including 6,000 from Iran, have visited Yad Vashem's Farsi-language Web site since its launch just 12 days ago.

Dozens of Iranian visitors to the site have sent e-mails to Yad Vashem asking for more information on the Holocaust.

Yad Vashem officials stressed that this is a record number of visitors, and equals the annual number of visitors to the English-language Web site.
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The Farsi-language site includes 20 chronologically arranged sections, each of which includes dozens of pictures spanning from the Nazi's rise to power to the post-war trials of Nazi criminals. The site also includes information on Yad Vashem, including its structure, objectives and activities.

"Providing access to credible, comprehensive information on the Holocaust to Farsi speakers is an important tool in the fight against Holocaust denial," said Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem's directorate.
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  1.   Thank You Yad Vashem! 02:51  |  Persian Kitty 07/02/07
  2.   Farsi 03:11  |  Moses 07/02/07
  3.   Honest Question 03:50  |  HELP 07/02/07
  4.   Good Idea 04:44  |  Tom C 07/02/07
  5.   Jewish popolation 05:39  |  Vanessa 07/02/07
  6.   Afaree, Baree Kala To Yad VaShem! 05:51  |  Lavi 07/02/07
  7.   response to HELP 06:01  |  Orayach 07/02/07
  8.   If Yad Vashem has not done so, it should open a site in Arabic as 06:27  |  Nadav 07/02/07
  9.   How do we know six million? 06:28  |  Michael 07/02/07
  10.   To Vanessa 06:46  |  Persian Kitty 07/02/07
  11.   and the address for that site is........ 07:14  |  Massoud Levy 07/02/07
  12.   Thank you, good job, Yad Vashem !!! 07:18  |  Roberto Feldmann 07/02/07
  13.   Good idea 07:39  |  anti-racist 07/02/07
  14.   To Persian Kitty 08:20  |  Eli 07/02/07
  15.   reply to 10 09:07  |  an Israeli 07/02/07
  16.   Here one can find the address of the Farsi site 10:08  |  Judith in Haifa 07/02/07
  17.   Waste of Time 10:40  |  un-pc 07/02/07
  18.   AWESOME! Kol HaKavod Yad Vashem! 13:29  |  Michelle 07/02/07
  19.   To Honest Questioner 19:58  |  Pam 07/02/07
  20.   To Vanessa and those who wrote to me 20:24  |  Persian Kitty 07/02/07
  21.   human dignity 21:26  |  bahira 07/02/07
  22.   Thank You Yad Vashem on Behalf of Iran and Iranians 22:03  |  Haj Eamam Sistani 07/02/07
  23.   #3 - Partial Answer 22:17  |  Ryan 07/02/07
  24.   Link Inside 23:41  |  David T. 07/02/07
  25.   To HELP: Statistics 00:46  |  Esther 08/02/07
  26.   Finding population figures 08:08  |  R. Karyn Berger 08/02/07
  27.   Yad Vashem exhibit with Farsi 09:03  |  Jon Pinkus 08/02/07
  28.   To Haaretz 22:00  |  Persian Kitty 08/02/07
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