ABSTRACT
Two international conferences were held by Yad Vashem in the 1970s, in keeping with the tradition established by the conference on Jewish resistance. In the early 1980s another conference took place. Holding three conferences in six years (April 1974, April 1977, January 1980) bears witness to the great progress in Holocaust research in this decade and to the successful efforts of Yad Vashem to become an international center of Holocaust research. It also gave expression to processes inside Yad Vashem: the activities and influence of the academic committee, Israel Gutman’s joining the institution and the departure of the group of survivor-historians that had taken part in the debate about the character of research. There was a desire to enhance the academic profile of Yad Vashem (which had been somewhat waning in the 1960s), and to bring it up to academic standards.
