Arad, Yitzhak, "Engraved In Memory: Warrior, Survivor, and Immortalizer", 2016 — Association of Jews of Vilna and vicinity in Israel

Yitzhak Arad was born in Święciany, Poland (now Lithuania), and as a child moved with his family to Warsaw. After the conquest of the city, he and his sister smuggled across the border back to Święciany. After months of wandering in the towns and forests of Belarus, he joined the partisans.

In December 1945, Arad made aliyah to Eretz Israel and fought in the Israeli wars.  In the last years of his military service he served as chief education officer.  Dr. Arad was appointed Chairman of the Yad Vashem Board, and after his retirement, continued to work in research and scientific consulting.

His books on the destruction of Vilna Jewry, the Holocaust of the Jews of the Soviet Union and Poland, and the first extermination camps were praised and translated into various languages.