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Yad Vashem is open to the general public, free of charge. All visits to Yad Vashem must be reserved in advance.

Mutual Aid and Welfare During the Holocaust

Even before the Holocaust, the Jews of Europe and North Africa had established welfare and mutual aid organizations. Following the occupation, the Nazis dismantled these organizations, but the Jews re-established them clandestinely in communities, ghettos, concentration camps and even in the forests, while fighting with the partisans.

Bucharest, Romania, 1942-1944, Children who have received clothes from self-help organizations
Bucharest, Romania, 1942-1944, Children who have received clothes from self-help organizations

Bucharest, Romania, 1942-1944, Children who have received clothes from self-help organizations
Warsaw, Poland, Jews around a seder table in a shelter on 6 Leszno St. in the ghetto, reading from the Passover Haggada
Warsaw, Poland, Jews around a seder table in a shelter on 6 Leszno St. in the ghetto, reading from the Passover Haggada

Warsaw, Poland, Jews around a seder table in a shelter on 6 Leszno St. in the ghetto, reading from the Passover Haggada
Zelechow, Poland, 1942, Jewish residents of the ghetto in the communal kitchen
Zelechow, Poland, 1942, Jewish residents of the ghetto in the communal kitchen

Zelechow, Poland, 1942, Jewish residents of the ghetto in the communal kitchen
Children from the ghetto supported by a self-aid organization, Gorlice, Poland, 1942
Children from the ghetto supported by a self-aid organization, Gorlice, Poland, 1942

Children from the ghetto supported by a self-aid organization, Gorlice, Poland, 1942
People standing in line to receive funds from self-help organizations. Bucharest, Romania, 1942-44
People standing in line to receive funds from self-help organizations. Bucharest, Romania, 1942-44

People standing in line to receive funds from self-help organizations. Bucharest, Romania, 1942-44
Food distribution in a public kitchen in the ghetto, Lodz, Poland
Food distribution in a public kitchen in the ghetto, Lodz, Poland

Food distribution in a public kitchen in the ghetto, Lodz, Poland