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Chapter 71 of 86 - Israel's Holocaust museum and memorial.

Holocaust Museum Vol. 1 WARNING! These are very graphic photographs that were taken after the Jewish people were liberated by U.S. Armed Forces and their Allies as World War two was coming to a close in Europe.

Graphic in this case means photographs of death and human destruction. Any questions?

Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, is the Jewish people's memorial to the murdered Six Million and symbolizes the ongoing confrontation with the rupture engendered by the Holocaust. Containing the world's largest repository of information on the Holocaust, Yad Vashem is a leader in Shoah education, commemoration, research and documentation.

"And to them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name (a "yad vashem")... that shall not be cut off."
(Isaiah, chapter 56, verse 5)

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, was established in 1953 by an act of the Israeli Knesset. Since its inception, Yad Vashem has been entrusted with documenting the history of the Jewish people during the Holocaust period, preserving the memory and story of each of the six million victims, and imparting the legacy of the Holocaust for generations to come through its archives, library, school, museums and recognition of the Righteous Among the Nations.

Located on Har Hazikaron, the Mount of Remembrance, in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem is a vast, sprawling complex of tree-studded walkways leading to museums, exhibits, archives, monuments, sculptures, and memorials.

Yad Vashem's Information Repositories

The Archive collection, the largest and most comprehensive repository of material on the Holocaust in the world, comprises 62 million pages of documents, nearly 267,500 photographs along with thousands of films and videotaped testimonies of survivors. These may be accessed by the public and read and viewed in the appropriate rooms.

The Library houses some 100,000 titles in many languages, thousands of periodicals and a large number of rare and precious items, establishing itself as the most significant Holocaust library in the world. Holdings may be accessed by the public on site, and residents of Israel are entitled to limited borrowing privileges.

The Hall of Names is a tribute to the victims by remembering them not as anonymous numbers but as individual human beings. The "Pages of Testimony" are symbolic gravestones, which record names and biographical data of millions of martyrs, as submitted by family members and friends. To date Yad Vashem has computerized 3.2 million names of Holocaust victims, compiled from approximately 2 million Pages of Testimony and various other lists.

Education, Research and Publications

The International School for Holocaust Studies is the only school of its kind in the world. With 17 classrooms, a modern multimedia center, resource and pedagogical center, an auditorium and over 100 educators on its staff, the school caters annually to over 100,000 students and youth, 50,000 soldiers, and thousands of educators from Israel and around the world. Courses for teachers are offered in 8 languages other than Hebrew, and the school also sends its professional staff around the world for the purpose of Holocaust education. The team of experts at the school is developing a variety of educational programmes and study aids on the Holocaust including advanced multimedia programs, maps, books, cassettes and other educational aids.

The International Institute for Holocaust Research coordinates and supports research on national and international levels, organizes conferences and colloquia and publishes a variety of important works on the Holocaust, including memoirs, diaries, historical studies, a scholarly annual and such like.

The Yad Vashem Studies is a series of 32 volumes to date, comprising conference proceedings and scholarly articles on every aspect of the Holocaust.

Yad Vashem Publications has a growing catalogue of Hebrew and English publications including history books, diaries and document collections. Yad Vashem has published over 200 books to date, which constitute the backbone of Holocaust literature in Israeli society. In recent years, 24 books have been published annually

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[zeplin69]

I did not know this. Thank you very much for informing me of information that I otherwise, would not think about. This is certainly a revelation for me, especially since I lived in the Philippines for almost two years and never learned about this.

Thank you again.

[TheGeneralRule]

The US govt used the propaganda hoax called "The Holocaust" to give themselves historical justification to convince their people post-WWII that they were right to intervene when in fact they played right into the hands of the evil communists. Jews began enmigrating out of central europe in 1933 so by June of 1941 there were only 2.2 million left of which around 2 million survived the camps or spent the whole time hiding in attics. Jews have never offered any proof to support their wild claims.

[RoseOfBath]

Not everyone refused. My grandparents escaped to the UK, as did other members of their family.

[renfest]

Even America turned them back until Pearl Harbor

[gdt78550]

Philippines and Israel- Historical records show that "when everyone else in the world refused to take in Jews escaping from Nazi tyranny in Europe, the Philippines gladly opened its doors and welcomed them with open arms."

Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon "built a housing project for Jewish refugees in Marikina in 1939 and allotted a farm and settlement area in Mindanao for 35,000 Jewish refugees before World War II."