Yad Vashem means “a monument and a name” in Hebrew. No cemeteries, no headstones, no traces were left to mark the loss of the six million Holocaust victims. This is Israel’s remembrance. The most graphic and horrifying Holocaust Museum we’ve ever seen. לעולם לא אשכח (Never forget)
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- A hallway is bisected by books that would have been burned by Nazis: liberal, pacifist, art, sex, history books unkind to Germans.
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- Concentration camp survivors at Buchenwald, Germany in their barracks after liberation by the Allies in 1945
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- Children who died in concentration camps in Auschwiz, Poland.
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- Touching historical photos of Holocaust victims in happier days.
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- Yad Vashem has a mission to memorialize victims by collecting one-page testimonies to restore the identity and life stories of the six million Jews murdered. This huge room has binders full of names and histories.
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- The Children’s Memorial is a surreal circular pathway through thousands of candles reflected in small mirrors where the name, country and age of each child killed is read in an all too lengthy recording.
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