Moshe Bejski in the 2002 in front of Yad Vashem Garden, in Jerusalem

The President of the Yad Vashem Commission of the Righteous died in hospital in Tel Aviv on 6 May 2007. He is buried in the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv

Moshe Bejski was born in the little Polish village of Dzialoszyce, close to Cracovia, the 29th of December 1920. Oppressed by the Nazis, after the occupation of Poland, in 1939 survived Auschwitz thanks to the famous list of Oskar Shindler, who invest himself to protect the Jewish working in his factory up to the end of the war. After the Red Army’s arrival in Poland, Bejski and his two brothers survivors, emigrated to Israel, where he became a judge of the Constitutional Court. In 1962, after the clamour of the Eichmann trial, at which he gave testimony, Moshe Bejski became a member of the newly formed Commission of the Righteous, and in 1970 became its president. In 1995 Moshe Bejski left the presidency of the Commission to dedicate his efforts to educating young people.