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Opening Hours:

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.

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.

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The last postcard that the child Sonia Cerny, who was in hiding, received from her mother and her sister who remained in the Kovno Ghetto and were murdered

A small postcard that was smuggled out of the Kovno ghetto to the child Sonia Cerny.
A small postcard that was smuggled out of the Kovno ghetto to the child Sonia Cerny.

It was sent to Sonia by her mother Pola and sister Nadia a short time before the ghetto was liquidated in July 1944

A small postcard that was smuggled out of the Kovno ghetto to the child Sonia Cerny.
A letter that was smuggled out of the Kovno ghetto to the child Sonia Cerny
A letter that was smuggled out of the Kovno ghetto to the child Sonia Cerny

It was sent to Sonia by her mother Pola and sister Nadia a short time before the ghetto was liquidated in July 1944

A letter that was smuggled out of the Kovno ghetto to the child Sonia Cerny
The Cerny family on holiday in the summer of 1936
The Cerny family on holiday in the summer of 1936

Pola and Grisha Cerny and their daughters Nadia and Sonia (the younger child)

The Cerny family on holiday in the summer of 1936