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Spain confers royal award on Yad Vashem

By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Jewish World Correspondent

Yad Vashem, Jerusalem's Holocaust museum and memorial, is to receive this year's Prince of Asturias Award for Concord given by the Spanish royal family. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was of many world leaders who proposed and endorsed Yad Vashem to receive the award.

This year additional recipients of the award's eight categories include Israeli author Amoz Oz, former US Vice President Al Gore and Bob Dylan.

The Concord prize is awarded each year to a "person, persons or institution whose work has made an exemplary and outstanding contribution to mutual understanding and peaceful coexistence amongst men, to the struggle against injustice, poverty, disease or ignorance, to the defence of freedom, or whose work has widened the horizons of knowledge or has been outstanding in protecting and preserving mankind's heritage."

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Last year, it was awarded to UNICEF.

The jury said Yad Vashem received the award for being a a living memoir of a great historic tragedy, for its tenacious work fostering the memory for present and future generations, and for overcoming hate, racism and bigotry."

The prize of 50,000 euros will be awarded next month at Oviedo in Spain.

Among the long list of statesmen and public figures endorsing Yad Vashem are President Shimon Peres, Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos and U.S. presidential candidate Senator Hilary Clinton.

Merkel wrote in her endorsement of Yad Vashem for the prize that "it is a place against oblivion that returns to the victims of the crime against humanity, the Shoah, their names. Yad Vashem is also a place for hope. The hope for reconciling and understanding, for tolerance and humanity, for peace and good coexistence."

In a statement thanking the Prince of Asturias Foundation for the award, Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev said that the award "recognizes that the memory of the Holocaust, the systematic murder of the Jews that took place in the heart of Europe, has profound significance for the coexistence of the family of nations, today, and through the ages."

"As the generation of the witnesses to these horrors dwindles, Yad Vashem will continue to transform their memory into building blocks for a better world, one characterized by tolerance and mutual respect amongst all peoples," Shalev added.

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1.	Congratulations Yad Vashem	14:23	\|	KUTW	16/09/07

2.	remembering sabra and shatila	16:05	\|	cristina	16/09/07

3.	# 1 congratulations to Spain/Germany	16:13	\|	James	16/09/07

4.	2 cristina. Remember jihad on Lebanese Christians	16:22	\|	KUTW	16/09/07

5.	3. James	16:25	\|	KUTW	16/09/07

6.	No 2 misguided Cristina	16:29	\|	Mike	16/09/07

7.	To Cristina	16:40	\|	Castor Troy	16/09/07

8.	Royal award on Yad Vashem Memorial	16:58	\|	Samy	16/09/07

9.	Cristina	17:12	\|	Albert Seligman	16/09/07

10.	Re. Amos Oz...he should share his prize with Hamas	17:23	\|	SLAVO	16/09/07

11.	cristina	17:23	\|	ChanahS	16/09/07

12.	Christina/UK YAD VASHEM	17:37	\|	Paula	16/09/07

13.	Spaniards need this " heads up"	19:03	\|	Shelley	16/09/07

14.	Dear Cristina	19:27	\|	Ajay Kaur	16/09/07

15.	#@ Six million Palestnians killed there, right, cristina?	20:50	\|	Yonatan	16/09/07

16.	#2 Critstina	20:51	\|	* BEN JABO	16/09/07

17.	I see cristina is taking a shellacking	20:53	\|	Yonatan	16/09/07

18.	British projectionism	20:56	\|	Michael	16/09/07

19.	cristina, rain on a more insignificant parade!	22:39	\|	akiva P	16/09/07

20.	...she richly deserves a spanking!	22:48	\|	akiva P	16/09/07

21.	Spaniards helped in the Shoa	10:35	\|	sweis Melbourne	17/09/07

22.	response to sweis Melbourne	12:04	\|	Francisco	17/09/07

23.	Congratulations! But...	14:15	\|	Lourdes	17/09/07

24.	spain	20:37	\|	siegfried buchwalte	17/09/07

25.	spain	20:43	\|	siegfried buchwalte	17/09/07

26.	spain	20:57	\|	siegfried buchwalte	17/09/07

27.	Francisco	00:42	\|	sweis Melbourne	18/09/07

28.	cristina,	07:25	\|	charro	18/09/07

29.	Spain	15:08	\|	siegfried buchwalte	18/09/07

30.	Congratulations from Spain	22:08	\|	Asturian	18/09/07

31.	The enigmatic Caudillo, Francisco Franco	17:48	\|	Jake	19/09/07

32.	spain	23:54	\|	siegfried buchwalte	19/09/07

33.	Asturian	00:49	\|	sweis Melbourne	20/09/07

34.	thanks! to sweis from melbourne	16:18	\|	Francisco	20/09/07

35.	Inquisition	16:47	\|	Francisco	20/09/07

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