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Part museum, part archive, it's called Yad Vashem, which in Hebrew means "a memorial and a name." More than a million visitors come here each year, to try to comprehend the magnitude of the Holocaust.

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — For much of its history, Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust authority, tried to steer clear of political controversies as it went about creating a lasting memorial ...

Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, has launched a groundbreaking initiative called the Touching Memory Theater. In a powerful new approach to Holocaust education ...

Yad Vashem is the second-most visited site in Israel after the Western Wall, and it is important for it to reach a wide audience. Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in ...

Halfway through a tour of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum on Monday, the former Islamic State sex slave slumped. Two years after the first mass graves were found in Sinjar, the northern ...

Yad Vashem is a hallowed national institution that memorializes one of the darkest chapters in Jewish and human history. It is a memorial that serves several different purposes. First, it is just ...

But Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, has resisted doing so. The new information about Sheptytsky offers his supporters a new chance to have his historical record honored. Sheptytsky and ...

Medical equipment lending center at Yad Sarah House, Jerusalem, Israel. Yoninah/Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. One beloved Israeli ...

Some of the survivors in prayer at Rachel's TombYad L'Achim Dozens of Jewish women rescued from Arab villages by Yad L'Achim in the past year raised their voices in heartfelt prayer on Monday at ...