06.01.12
![President Kiir in the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem. The Hall of Names contains information about Jews murdered in the Holocaust. [photo: Isaac Harari/Yad Vashem/Editorial Use only]](http://www.holocausttaskforce.org/components/com_joomgallery/img_thumbnails/president_of_south_sudan_visits_yad_vashem_70/editorial_use_only_20120106_1610769203.jpg)
![President Kiir visits Yad Vashem's Holocaust Hisotry Museum. [photo: Isaac Harari/Yad Vashem/Editorial Use only]](http://www.holocausttaskforce.org/components/com_joomgallery/img_thumbnails/president_of_south_sudan_visits_yad_vashem_70/editorial_use_only_20120106_2061255964.jpg)
![President Kiir lays a wreath on the concrete slab under which are ashes from the extermination camps, in the Hall of Remembrance today at Yad Vashem. [photo: Isaac Harari/Yad Vashem/Editorial Use only]](http://www.holocausttaskforce.org/components/com_joomgallery/img_thumbnails/president_of_south_sudan_visits_yad_vashem_70/editorial_use_only_20120106_1015450232.jpg)
President of South Sudan Visits Yad Vashem
The President of South Sudan Salva Kiir visited Yad Vashem in December during an official trip to Israel.
President Kiir was accompanied by four government ministers during his visit. He was greeted by Avner Shalev, Chairman of Yad Vashem, and toured the Holocaust History Museum and Hall of Names, guided by Dr. Robert Rozett, Director of the Yad Vashem Libraries. He participated in a Memorial Ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance and visited the Children's Memorial.
President of South Sudan Visits Yad Vashem
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