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Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

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Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, is situated on a 45-acre campus comprising museums, exhibitions, monuments, sculptures, and memorial sites.

ABOUT YAD VASHEM

Thousands of visitors come to Yad Vashem each day. The museum’s various galleries depict the events of the Holocaust from a uniquely Jewish perspective via authentic artifacts, personal documents, survivors’ testimonies, films, diaries, and works of art, emphasizing the individual story. Integrating these many and varied forms of personal expression allows the visitor to absorb the wealth of information as a multi-dimensional and intensely moving experience.

While visiting Yad Vashem, don’t miss the Holocaust Art Museum, which houses the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind, most of which was created during the Holocaust period. The adjacent Synagogue houses a permanent display of Torah Arks and Jewish ritual objects from synagogues that were destroyed or damaged during the Holocaust.

As you walk through the extensive grounds, you will encounter many monuments and memorial sites that commemorate the Holocaust in a variety of ways. Planted along the Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations are dozens of trees in tribute to non-Jews who acted according to humanity’s most noble instincts, and risked their lives to help and save Jews during the Holocaust period.

An exceptional and often unexplored memorial is located on the western edge of the Mount of Remembrance: The Valley of the Communities.  This vast, open-air monument commemorates the over 5,000 Jewish communities destroyed or damaged during the Holocaust on its 107 stone walls. It is a memorial to the Jewish world that was and is no more.

Yad Vashem is entrusted with documenting the history of the Jewish people in the Holocaust period, commemorating the life story of each and every one of the six million murdered Jewish men, women, and children, and imparting the legacy of the Holocaust to future generations.

Yad Vashem is Ranked by Tripadvisor as one of the Top 25 Museums in the World.

Ranked by Tripadvisor as #2 of Things to do in Jerusalem Yad Vashem.

Group Tours

This group tour of Yad Vashem offers you a  unique opportunity to explore the history of the Holocaust from the Jewish perspective.  During the tour, your expert guide will tell you about the individual stories behind the artifacts, photographs and artwork displayed in the museum. 

To reserve a group visit and/or a guided tour, please contact the Yad Vashem reservations center at +972-(0)72-3281987

Additional Information

  • Yad Vashem is handicapped accessible.
  • Audio Guide tour in 9 languages helps you discover the stories behind hundreds of items on display
  • Entrance to Yad Vashem is free
  • Entrance to the Holocaust History Museum is until one hour before closing.
  • Children under the age of 10 are not permitted to enter the Holocaust History Museum.

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Parking is available for 28 ILS for the day
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  • Paul Pimrick
    Paul Pimrick
    April 7, 2023

    Absolutely fascinating place. You'll need a booking reservation. This can be completed on arrival, but entry could be delayed. Bags aren't permitted. Free lockers are available downstairs. There is more to the place than...

  • Hamdi Hato
    Hamdi Hato
    October 7, 2022

    I visited this place with friends, you should prepare yourself very well emotionally and spiritually, it's not like any museum, the way it design is really unique and the narrative meanwhile the diversity of the contents,...

  • Eduardo Pagani
    Eduardo Pagani
    April 25, 2023

    Outstanding. A must see if you come to Israel. The museum has a terrific, modern architecture with plenty of significance. The displays are in chronological order. I thought I knew a lot about the Holocaust and found...

  • Alex Berman
    Alex Berman
    December 8, 2021

    A must visit museum for every person on the planet. The horrible history our not that distant ancestors experienced must not be forgotten and learned in the near and distant future. The visit takes around two hours and in...

  • WeruschkaZanzibar Oosthuizen
    WeruschkaZanzibar Oosthuizen
    October 3, 2019

    I actually couldn't bear it. The architects makes the horrific past so real that yes I might have ties to it but you cannot walk through and watch in awe at the marvel they created without shedding a tear or having your h...

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