Yad Vashem's Farsi-language Web site proves to be a big success - Haaretz

Last update - 02:17 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