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Sunday to Thursday: ‬09:00-17:00

Fridays and Holiday eves: ‬09:00-14:00

Yad Vashem is closed on Saturdays and all Jewish Holidays.

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The baby shoe of Hinda Cohen, with the date of her deportation to the death camp carved into the sole by her father

Tzipporah and Dov Cohen were a young couple when the war broke out who had already experienced the loss of one child during childbirth. With the German invasion of Lithuania, they unsuccessfully tried to flee to the Soviet Union. They returned to their home in Kovno and were later interned in the Kovno Ghetto. Approximately half a year later, on January 18, 1942, Tzipporah gave birth to a daughter who she named Hinda after her mother. At the end of November 1943, the couple was transferred to the Aleksotas Work Camp, whose inmates worked in the airport, where they lived in very difficult conditions, performing backbreaking forced labor.

The baby shoe of Hinda Cohen, with the date of her deportation to the death camp carved into the sole by her father
The baby shoe of Hinda Cohen, with the date of her deportation to the death camp carved into the sole by her father

The baby shoe of Hinda Cohen, with the date of her deportation to the death camp carved into the sole by her father
The baby shoe of Hinda Cohen, who was deported to Auschwitz and murdered
The baby shoe of Hinda Cohen, who was deported to Auschwitz and murdered

The baby shoe of Hinda Cohen, who was deported to Auschwitz and murdered
Tzippora and Dov Cohen, 1938, shortly after their wedding
Tzippora and Dov Cohen, 1938, shortly after their wedding

Tzippora and Dov Cohen, 1938, shortly after their wedding
Gloves that Tzipporah knit for Hinda in the ghetto from scraps of wool
Gloves that Tzipporah knit for Hinda in the ghetto from scraps of wool

Gloves that Tzipporah knit for Hinda in the ghetto from scraps of wool
Birth Certificate of Hinda Cohen, Kovno Ghetto, January 18th, 1942
Birth Certificate of Hinda Cohen, Kovno Ghetto, January 18th, 1942

Birth Certificate of Hinda Cohen, Kovno Ghetto, January 18th, 1942