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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.

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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“May Your Memory Be Love“ - The Story of Ovadia Baruch

In March 1943, twenty-year-old Ovadia Baruch was deported together with his family from Greece to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arrival, his extended family was sent to the gas chambers. Ovadia struggled to survive until his liberation from the Mauthausen concentration camp in May 1945. While in Auschwitz, Ovadia met Aliza Tzarfati, a young Jewish woman from his hometown, and the two developed a loving relationship despite inhuman conditions. This film depicts their remarkable, touching story of love and survival in Auschwitz, a miraculous meeting after the Holocaust and the home they built together in Israel. This film is part of the "Witnesses and Education" project, a joint production of the International School for Holocaust Studies and the Multimedia Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In this series, survivors recount their life stores - before, during and after the Holocaust. Each title is filmed on location, where the events originally transpired.

A man dressed in the style characteristic of local Jews, Saloniki, Greece
A man dressed in the style characteristic of local Jews, Saloniki, Greece

A man dressed in the style characteristic of local Jews, Saloniki, Greece
The Beit-El synagogue, Saloniki, Greece
The Beit-El synagogue, Saloniki, Greece

The Beit-El synagogue, Saloniki, Greece
Saloniki, Greece, Humiliation of Jews during "Black Sabbath", July 11, 1942
Saloniki, Greece, Humiliation of Jews during "Black Sabbath", July 11, 1942

Saloniki, Greece, Humiliation of Jews during "Black Sabbath", July 11, 1942
Mauthausen, Austria, 1941, Inmates on forced labor
Mauthausen, Austria, 1941, Inmates on forced labor

Mauthausen, Austria, 1941, Inmates on forced labor
Mauthausen, Austria, An orchestra escorts prisoners destined for execution, 30.07.1942
Mauthausen, Austria, An orchestra escorts prisoners destined for execution, 30.07.1942

Mauthausen, Austria, An orchestra escorts prisoners destined for execution, 30.07.1942
Austria, A death march to Mauthausen
Austria, A death march to Mauthausen

Austria, A death march to Mauthausen
Birkenau, Poland, Women and children on the selection platform
Birkenau, Poland, Women and children on the selection platform

Birkenau, Poland, Women and children on the selection platform
Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia undergoing selection on the ramp at Birkenau.
Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia undergoing selection on the ramp at Birkenau.

Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia undergoing selection on the ramp at Birkenau.
Birkenau, Poland, Jews on the Platform after Alighting from a Deportation Train
Birkenau, Poland, Jews on the Platform after Alighting from a Deportation Train

Birkenau, Poland, Jews on the Platform after Alighting from a Deportation Train
Birkenau, Poland, Selection on the platform
Birkenau, Poland, Selection on the platform

Birkenau, Poland, Selection on the platform
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, Jews undergoing the selection process on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp".
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, Jews undergoing the selection process on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp".

The people in the background are on their way to Crematorium II, whose building is just visible on the top center of the photo.

Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, Jews undergoing the selection process on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp".
Auschwitz, Poland, Inmates lying on bunks in a barrack, after the liberation
Auschwitz, Poland, Inmates lying on bunks in a barrack, after the liberation

Auschwitz, Poland, Inmates lying on bunks in a barrack, after the liberation
Auschwitz-Birkenau, women and children deemed "unfit for work" being led unknowingly to Gas Chamber #4
Auschwitz-Birkenau, women and children deemed "unfit for work" being led unknowingly to Gas Chamber #4

Auschwitz-Birkenau, women and children deemed "unfit for work" being led unknowingly to Gas Chamber #4