Yad Vashem

American  

[yahd vah-shem] / ˈyɑd vɑˈʃɛm /

Or Yad va-Shem

noun

Hebrew.

1. the official authority in Israel for the commemoration of the Holocaust and its victims.

2. the memorial shrine administered by this authority.

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Example Sentences

Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem have “huge, large collections,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal

Bardella had earlier visited some of the places where Hamas carried out attacks on 7 October 2023, and Israel's Holocaust memorial institute Yad Vashem.

From BBC

Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum, was especially moving to Steinberg.

From Slate

He and another physician enlisted the Holocaust remembrance group Yad Vashem and publicly pushed for the University of Vienna to investigate whose bodies were depicted in its pages.

From Los Angeles Times

That’s why I visited Yad Vashem with my family as a senator, as vice president, as president.

From New York Times