Yad Vashem
Americannoun
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the official authority in Israel for the commemoration of the Holocaust and its victims.
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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
The film’s final scenes show the Daums successfully arranging for the Muchas to be honored as “the righteous among the nations” at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024
The Library and Archives of "Yad Vashem", in Jerusalem, had much material.
From The Grey Book by Snoek, Johan Martinus
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