Plan your Visit to Yad Vashem
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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.

Address by President of the State of Israel, H.E. Mr. Shimon Peres

State Opening Ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day 2008

63 years have passed since the end of the most destructive, bloody war mankind has ever known – World War II.

Victory over Nazi Germany restored the values of the human race, and saved Europe from sinking into an age of darkness and destruction.