Yad Vashem/Holocaust Museum
Har HaZikaron, 02-644340. Free.
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| Yad Vashem/Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, Israel |
Established in 1953, the Yad Vashem/Holocaust Museum complex is dedicated to remembering crimes against the Jewish people. It is the most visited site in Israel--more than the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Masada, or Western Wall. By the use of light, the visitor center transitions people from everyday life. The main museum appears as a long triangle through bedrock. Its zig-zaging path leads up a slight incline, telling a chronological story. Testimonials filmed by Steven Spielberg punctuate walls filled with photographs, descriptions, and artifacts. It is not an easy museum either physically or emotionally. The dome of the Hall of Names is now home to the documented names of 4 million of the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust. Also within the grounds is the Valley of the Communities, a massive monument dug out of natural bedrock and engraved with the names of more than 5,000 Jewish communities lost in the Holocaust, and The Cattle Car, a memorial to the millions of Jews herded into cattle-cars headed for extermination camps.
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