“This institution of Yad Vashem, which is more necessary than ever, is now going to have a rightful place on the streets of New York,” Keith Powers, a New York City Council member, said at the street naming.
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The way Dani Dayan figures it, many people will walk along 67th Street in Manhattan, between Second and Third Avenues, and notice the new sign for “Yad Vashem Way” and have no idea what the first two words mean.
“Some of them, not all of them, but some of them will Google ‘Yad Vashem’ and learn about the Shoah,” Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, told JNS at the street naming on Thursday.
