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Yad Vashem (Hebrew: יָד וַשֵׁם; lit. ' a memorial and a name ') is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; echoing the stories of the survivors; honoring Jews who fought against their Nazi oppressors and gentiles who selflessly aided Jews in need; and researching the phenomenon of the Holocaust ...
Righteous Among the Nations (Hebrew: חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם ḥasidei ummot ha'olam) is a title used by Yad Vashem to describe people who, for various reasons, made an effort to assist victims, including Jews, who were being exterminated by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.
Mitspe Karem (Hebrew: מִצְפֶּה כֶּרֶם) is an archaeological park located in the Jerusalem Forest on the west side of the Mount of Remembrance, near the Yad Vashem museum. There are finds from various periods, including the Early Bronze Age, Iron Age, possibly Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine period.
Along with some two dozen different structures within the Yad Vashem memorial – which is the second most-visited destination in the country after the Western Wall – the Garden of the Righteous is meant to honor those non-Jews who during the Holocaust risked their lives to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis.
Isaiah 56 is the fifty-sixth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. [1] Chapter 56 is the first chapter of the final section of the Book of Isaiah, often referred to as Trito-Isaiah ...
A Page of Testimony (Hebrew: דף עד) is a form issued by Yad Vashem (יד ושם) that asks for information about a Jewish victim of the Holocaust.Over 4.3 million Pages of Testimony have been submitted to Yad Vashem, [1] beginning in the 1950s. [2]
Yad Vashem (in Hebrew) The Central Data Base of Shoah Victims' Names is the world's largest collection of victims' names of the Shoah. It has been established by Yad Vashem in 1954. The informations can by obtained via internet worldwide.
The Book of Names at Yad Vashem The Book of Names in Auschwitz. The Book of Names is a large-scale commemoration book, whose pages detail the names and short biographical information about approximately 4,800,000 Jewish victims of the Holocaust known to and documented by Yad Vashem, out of a total of 5.8 million victims.