Yad Vashem

Or Yad va-Shem

[yahd vah-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.

Example Sentences

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.

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

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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.

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

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While Israel’s national Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, tries to steer clear of politics, its ceremony this year includes an empty yellow chair in solidarity with the Israeli hostages still held in Gaza.

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