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Yad Vashem

American  
[yahd vah-shem] / ˈjɑd 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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Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem have “huge, large collections,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

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

From Slate Oct. 21, 2024

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 May 20, 2024

Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem, said Israelis should instead display the country’s flag as a sign of strength.

From New York Times Oct. 31, 2023

The Library and Archives of "Yad Vashem", in Jerusalem, had much material.

From The Grey Book by Snoek, Johan Martinus

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