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Fridays and Holiday eves: 09:00-14:00
Yad Vashem is closed on Saturdays and all Jewish Holidays.
Entrance to the Holocaust History Museum is not permitted for children under the age of 10. Babies in strollers or carriers will not be permitted to enter.
"….If not for the fateful decision [of Yitzhak] to send my parents to Eretz Yisrael I wouldn’t have survived and even today I feel that I owe my life to him. All that remains of him is this Mahzor (Holiday prayerbook) inscribed in his handwriting. It’s as if it is his tombstone."
Chaya Tepper, grand-daughter of Yitzhak Kurant from Przytyk, Poland, in the covering letter she wrote when she donated the Mahzor to Yad Vashem
The Artifacts Collection of Yad Vashem’s Museum 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. The collection includes a wide variety of artifacts connected to the events that unfolded in Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, that reveal different aspects of the Holocaust:
Since the establishment of Yad Vashem, individuals and assorted organizations have donated Holocaust related artifacts. In the first decades, the artifacts were preserved in the Archives until the establishment of a separate artifacts collection in the Museums Division. From 1995, under the direction of Haviva Peled-Carmeli, the artifacts collection expanded and developed through her enthusiastic efforts.
In recent years much emphasis has been placed on collecting artifacts that document the daily life of Jews in the shadow of annihilation, focusing on children’s games, artifacts created in the camps, artifacts testifying to spiritual endurance and artifacts demonstrating the struggle to live a normal life in a difficult, if not impossible, reality.
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