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- Yad Vashem’s archives today consist of three main areas: Documentation materials, both of Jewish organizations and institutions, and also German-produced documents from the era of the Holocaust. This includes posters, letters, memoirs, testimonies, diaries, legal documents, and more.
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Yad Vashem Archives. About the Yad Vashem Archives. In 1953, the Israeli Knesset enacted the Yad Vashem Law, which determined that among its other missions, the task of Yad Vashem is “ to collect, examine and publish testimony of the disaster and the heroism it called forth…”.
- Our Collections
Over the years, the Yad Vashem Archives have collected...
- Photo and Film Archives
Photographs and films are important historical resources for...
- Holocaust Martyrs
Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah...
- What Is Yad Vashem
Established in 1953 by an act of the Knesset (Israeli...
- Hall of Names
The Hall of Names at Yad Vashem is the Jewish People’s...
- Our Collections
Archives. Yad Vashem documents the events of the Shoah by collecting and safeguarding millions of pieces of evidence so that an accurate and detailed historical record of the atrocities committed may be preserved and disseminated. With some 190 million pages of documentation, 129,000 survivor testimonies, and hundreds of thousands of original ...
The Archive is the oldest department of Yad Vashem. Before presenting an exhibition, Yad Vashem collects items. The best known of these are the historical photographs, as well as the Pages of Testimonies collected from survivors.
Yad Vashem’s archives today consist of three main areas: Documentation materials, both of Jewish organizations and institutions, and also German-produced documents from the era of the Holocaust. This includes posters, letters, memoirs, testimonies, diaries, legal documents, and more.