- The new Yad Vashem museum, opened in 2005, was designed by Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie, replacing the previous 30-year-old exhibition.
- The Valley of the Communities at Yad Vashem is a massive 2.5 acre monument literally dug out of natural bedrock.
- Yad Vashem stands at the forefront of ongoing efforts to ensure and represent the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and its era...
- In addition to the Holocaust History Museum, the Yad Vashem campus has a number of other memorials you can visit.
- Established in 1953, Yad Vashem Museum is one of the most famous Jerusalem institutions – and comprises far more than just the world's largest...
- In contrast to the database by the International Tracing Service (ITS), Yad Vashem enables visitors to tally the Holocaust victims listed in their database.
- Located just outside of Jerusalem on Mount Herzl, otherwise known as the Mount of Remembrance, Yad Vashem splits into two distinct areas.
- The original Yad Vashem complex, which opened in 1957, had few significant architectural features.
- In 1948 at mount Zion was founded the first Museum of the Holocaust, and in 1957 opened Yad Vashem.
- The archive at Yad Vashem contains 68 million pages of documents, nearly 300,000 photographs and thousands of films and videotaped testimonies of...