5120 x 3840 px | 43,3 x 32,5 cm | 17,1 x 12,8 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
12. April 2009
Ort:
Jerusalem, Israel
Weitere Informationen:
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, was established in 1953 by the Knesset, Israel's parliament. Yad Vashem has been documenting the history of the Jewish people during the Holocaust period, preserving the memory and story of each of the six million victims and imparting the legacy of the Holocaust for generations to come through its archives, library, school, museums and recognition of the Righteous Among the Nations for non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust, at personal risk. Yad Vashem is located on Har Hazikaron, the Mount of Remembrance, at the foot of Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. It is a vast complex of 45-acres (180, 000 m2) of walkways leading to museums, exhibits, archives, monuments, sculptures, and memorials.The main Holocaust History Museum occupies over 4, 200 square meters. It presents the story of the Holocaust from a unique Jewish perspective, emphasizing the experiences of the individual victims through original artifacts, survivor testimonies and personal possessions. The Children's Memorial is hollowed out from an underground cavern, where memorial candles, a customary Jewish tradition to remember the dead, are reflected infinitely in a dark and somber space. This memorial is a tribute to the approximately one and a half million Jewish children who perished during the Holocaust. The Hall of Names is a tribute to the victims by remembering them not as anonymous numbers but as individual human beings. The "Pages of Testimony" are symbolic gravestones, which record names and biographical data of millions of martyrs, as submitted by family members and friends. To date Yad Vashem has computerized 3.2 million names of Holocaust victims, compiled from approximately 2 million Pages of Testimony and various other sources. Yad Vashem's archive collection is the largest and most comprehensive repository of material on the Holocaust in the world.
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