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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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Letter-Opener that Richard Frenkel Received for his Second Birthday on 21 June 1942

For his second birthday on 21 June 1942, Richard Frenkel received a carved wooden letter-opener from his father Nissan, who was imprisoned in  Beaune-la-Rolande, France.  Approximately one month later, Richard and his mother Esther were arrested in Paris and sent to the Pithiviers camp. Esther was deported to Auschwitz and murdered, and Richard was left alone in Pithiviers.  In late August-early September, he was deported on his own, in a sealed cattle-car filled with strangers, to Auschwitz, where he was murdered. A few days after Nissan sent the present to his son, he was also sent to Auschwitz, where he too was murdered.