Israel’s Official Holocaust Museum, otherwise known as Yad VaShem, is dedicated to keeping the memory alive of the 6,000,000 Jews who were murdered\u00a0during the Holocaust as well as being a research center . It also honors the Gentiles who helped Jews hide and escape\u00a0even while knowing the cost to them and their families. Located on the side of Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, Israel’s National Cemetery, the museum has approximately one million visitors each year.<\/p>\n
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The museum features\u00a0a plethora\u00a0exhibits such as; The Exhibitions Pavilion where there are photographs, videos and\u00a0artifacts to explain and show what took place, The Hall of Names where there is a record of every single name of someone who perished as well as\u00a0space purposely kept unoccupied for the names of victims we will never know, The Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations, to honor the non-Jews who saved Jewish lives, has their names engraved on the walls listed by the country they’re from, The Memorial Cave, the memorial location for survivors to come and have\u00a0a place to pay their respects to victims without a grave and many, many more.<\/p>\n
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If you’d like to visit other significant sites in Jerusalem, be sure to check out our posts about the Israel Museum<\/a> and the Tower of David<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yad Vashem, Jerusalem Israel’s Official Holocaust Museum, otherwise known as Yad VaShem, is dedicated to keeping the memory alive of the 6,000,000 Jews who were murdered\u00a0during the Holocaust as well as being a research center . It also honors the Gentiles who helped Jews hide and escape\u00a0even while knowing the cost to them and their…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n