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The Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection includes more than 27,000 items that were donated over the years by Holocaust survivors or their families, as well as artifacts received from various organizations in Israel and abroad.
Artifacts donated to Yad Vashem, together with the personal stories behind them, play a significant role in commemorating the experiences of Jews in the Holocaust and preserving Holocaust memory for future generations.
Cutting-edge searching tools facilitate the exploration of thousands of items from the Artifacts Collection that are now accessible to both researchers and the general public on the Artifacts Database.
From the Collection
Forcing the Jews to wear distinctive markers was one of the tactics that enabled the Germans to recognize Jews as such on sight, and was designed to create a gulf between the Jews and the rest of the population.
The Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection houses many items that tell the story of the Jewish deportees incarcerated in the ghettos and camps of Transnistria, an area that was presented to Romania by Hitler as a reward for its support in the war against the Soviet Union.
Playing chess helped to alleviate the suffering of the Jews and allowed them a few moments of relief from the hunger, cold and fear. Some of the chess sets in the collection were crafted during the war, while others were made prewar and taken with Jews deported from their homes.
At the end of the war, hundreds of thousands of Jews across Europe found themselves in a dire physical state and with nothing to their name. The first items they took, received or created became a symbol of the day of liberation.
On Display in the Museum Complex
The Holocaust History Museum tells the story of the Holocaust from a unique Jewish perspective, using authentic artifacts, documents, testimonies, footage, diaries, letters and artworks to emphasize the personal stories of the victims of the Holocaust.
The Synagogue at Yad Vashem is designed to combine past and present. It serves both as a memorial and as a functioning place of prayer and assembly. Joyous occasions celebrated here, such as Bar Mitzvah ceremonies, symbolize renewal and Jewish continuity.
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Haviva Peled-Carmeli, Michael Tal, Sara Shor
The artifacts displayed in the Yad Vashem Synagogue are a few of the thousands of items preserved in Yad Vashem's collections that tell the story of the Jewish people – a panoramic mosaic of memories depicting the fate of individuals, families and communities during the Holocaust.
Dorit Harel
In this album, Dorit Harel shares her professional, personal and philosophical dilemmas that arose as she designed the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum.
Editors: Bella Gutterman and Avner Shalev
Mediating between a world that is no more and life rebuilt, the book leads the reader through the historical events as presented at the Yad Vashem Museum Complex, with documents, works of art and thousands of photographs.