The Holocaust History Museum
A decade in the making, the Holocaust History Museum combines the best of Yad Vashem's expertise, resources and state-of-the-art exhibits. Both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, it presents the story of the Shoah from a unique Jewish perspective, emphasizing the experiences of the individual victims through original artifacts, survivor testimonies and personal possessions.
The "Living Memory" exhibition provides a unique glimpse into the depths of the Yad Vashem Collections and the ongoing endeavors to discover the identities and the stories behind the rare items that have been collected over the years.
Museum Complex
Explore the story of the Holocaust through unique items from Yad Vashem's vast archives and collections, presented in a striking space designed by world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie.
The Museum's rotating permanent exhibition displays some 120 works of art. Most of these works were created during the Holocaust itself, or before the war by artists later murdered during the Shoah.
The monumental Book of Names actualizes the inconceivable number of Holocaust victims, and displays their names together with their dates of birth, hometowns and places of death, where known.
The Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection includes more than 27,000 items that were donated over the years by Holocaust survivors or their families, as well as artifacts received from various organizations in Israel and abroad.
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The vision and the challenges involved in creating this permanent exhibition at Auschwitz-Birkenau, dedicated to preserving the memory of Holocaust victims.
The Yad Vashem collections form the world's most extensive archival repository on the subject of the Holocaust. There is a story behind every photograph, every work of art, every letter, every object: the story of an individual, a family, a community.
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Haviva Peled-Carmeli, Michael Tal, Sara Shor
Dorit Harel
In this album, Dorit Harel shares her professional, personal and philosophical dilemmas that arose as she designed the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum.
Editors: Bella Gutterman and Avner Shalev
Mediating between a world that is no more and life rebuilt, the book leads the reader through the historical events as presented at the Yad Vashem Museum Complex, with documents, works of art and thousands of photographs.