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Visiting Info
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.

Drive to Yad Vashem:
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Where was God during the Holocaust? 

Questions throughout history regarding the existence of God, as well as the notion of individual and collective providence, have been with us since the time of the Bible. The systematic murder of Europe’s Jews during the Holocaust sharpens this question even further. 

Prof. Zvi Bachrach, historian and Holocaust survivor, Israel

Prof. Eliezer Schweid, Israeli scholar, writer and Professor of Jewish Philosophy

Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Holocaust survivor

Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, former Archbishop of Paris, Holocaust survivor, France

Borukh Gorin, Rabbi, Head of the Department of Public Relations of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia