Map of Yad Vashem

Visitors’ Center

Architect - Moshe Safdie
Donor - David and Fela Shapell
The entrance level of the glass and concrete enclosed Visitors’ Center serves as a place of orientation, information, reception and gathering. It opens in all directions to views of the campus and the surrounding landscape. On the floor below, open to the view of the valley, are visitor services, a cafeteria, restrooms and checkrooms. Below this are the parking levels.

Book and Resource Center

The Book and Resource Center is located in Yad Vashem’s new Entrance Complex and is managed by Steimatzky Group Ltd. The center provides a wide range of current reference books, multi-media, memoirs and Holocaust literature for visitor purchase. The 300 square meter building acts as a resource center and fills book orders and visitor requests related to the Holocaust and WWII in various languages. The center also offers all of Yad Vashem’s publications as well as educational materials produced by its International School for Holocaust Studies.

Cafeteria at Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem has a kosher meat cafeteria which offers hot meals as well as a coffee shop. The cafeteria is located in the lower level of the Visitors Center. For visitors exiting the new museum, a branch of the cafeteria is located in the Square of Hope.
Tel: 972-2-6419935

Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations

Trees have been planted around the Yad Vashem site in honor of those non-Jews who acted according to the most noble principles of humanity by risking their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Plaques adjacent to each tree record the names and countries of origin of those being honored.

The Holocaust History Museum

The new Holocaust History Museum's nine underground galleries tell the story of the Shoah from the point of view of the Jews. The chronological and thematic narrative is punctuated by a look into the worlds of Jews who lived - and died - under the Nazis and their collaborators. The exhibits incorporate a wide variety of original artifacts, testimonies, photographs, documentation, art, multimedia, and video art.

Hall of Names

The names and personal details of millions of victims have been recorded on Pages of Testimony, symbolic tombstones filled out by survivors in memory of their loved ones, and preserved in the Hall of Names. In an ongoing effort to collect more names before it is too late, Yad Vashem asks the public to assist in this sacred mission. To submit Pages of Testimony, visit The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names.

The Museum of Holocaust Art

The new Holocaust Art Museum exhibits the world's largest collection of art created in ghettos, camps, hideouts, and other places where artistic endeavor was nearly impossible. These works reflect the very spirit of the victims and survivors. The Holocaust Art Museum also contains the world's first computerized archive and information center regarding Shoah art and artists.

The Synagogue at Yad Vashem

The new Synagogue is a fitting place for visitors to say Kaddish for departed loved ones, for private prayer, communal worship, and memorial services for lost communities. Ritual artifacts rescued from destroyed synagogues in Europe adorn the building.

Children in the Holocaust: Stars Without a Heaven, 2015

The Exhibitions Pavilion displays a wide variety of historical, thematic, and art exhibits. This opens unique windows to the outer and inner worlds of Shoah victims and contributes unique perspectives to the ongoing attempt to understand the meaning of the Shoah.

The Learning Center

The Learning Center allows visitors to explore historical, thematic, and moral dilemmas and issues related to the Shoah. Through directed and independent learning, computer stations provide access to a wide range of information from internationally recognized historians, philosophers, and Yad Vashem's knowledge base. The Learning Center is open to organized groups, independent groups, and individuals.

Hall of Remembrance

An imposing, tent-like basalt structure that allows visitors to pay their respects to the memories of the martyred dead. On the floor are the names of 22 Nazi murder sites - extermination and concentration camps, transit camps and killing sites - chosen from the hundreds of murder sites that existed throughout Europe. A memorial flame burns continuously, next to a crypt containing ashes of victims brought from the extermination camps.
Architect: Aryeh Elhanani
Eternal Flame: Kosso Eloul
Southern gate: David Palombo Western gate: Bezalel Schatz

Pillar of Heroism

The Pillar of Heroism commemorates Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. The inscription on the concrete block reads: "Now and forever in memory of those who rebelled in the camps and ghettos, fought in the woods, in the underground and with the Allied forces; braved their way to Eretz Israel; and died sanctifying the name of God" .
Sculptor: Buki Schwartz

Children's Memorial

This unique memorial, hollowed out from an underground cavern, is a tribute to the approximately 1.5 million Jewish children who perished during the Holocaust. Walking through the memorial, the visitor will hear the names of murdered children, their ages and countries of origin in the background.
Architect: Moshe Safdie

Janusz Korczak Square

A tribute to the great Polish-Jewish educator Dr. Henrik Goldschmidt, known by his pseudonym Janusz Korczak, who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto. Despite his efforts to save his wards, Korczak and approximately 200 children from his orphanage were sent to the Treblinka death camp on August 5, 1942.
Sculptor: Boris Saktsier

Archives and Library Building

The largest and most comprehensive repository of documentary material on the Holocaust in the world, the Archive contains approximately 62 million pages and more than 267,500 still photographs, as well as thousands of audio and videotaped testimonies of survivors. These may be accessed by the public and viewed in the appropriate rooms. Yad Vashem's library has the world's most comprehensive collection of books on the Holocaust. It houses more than 90,000 titles in many languages and thousands of periodicals.
Architect: Danny Lanski

International School for Holocaust Studies

Committed to promoting Holocaust education and transmitting the legacy of the Holocaust to the younger generations, the School offers educational activities to pupils, students and soldiers, holds  training seminars for teachers in Israel and overseas, arranges symposia, and offers on-line teaching courses. The team of experts at the school has developed a variety of educational programs and study aids on the Holocaust. For more information please call 02-6443654.
Architects: David Guggenheim, Daniel Minz

Administration and Research Building

The International Institute for Holocaust Research plans and carries out research projects, organizes international seminars and conferences, and coordinates joint projects with research institutes around the world. The Institute also supports young research scholars, and publishes research theses and conference proceedings.

Monument to the Jewish Soldiers and Partisans who fought against Nazi Germany

Approximately 1,500,000 Jews fought against the Nazis, as Allied soldiers, as partisans, in the resistance movements, and in the ghettos. This monument is dedicated to the hundreds of thousands who lost their lives in this struggle.
Sculptor: Bernard Fink

Partisans’ Panorama

The Partisans' Panorama pays tribute to the Jewish fighters who joined the partisans during the Holocaust.  The sculpture at its center is entitled "For is the tree of the field man" (Deut. 20:19).  The sculptor, Zadok Ben-David, chose the tree as a symbol of the partisan fighter, whose life depended on the forest and its trees as a place to hide.  On a nearby stone the words of the partisans' anthem are engraved in Hebrew, Yiddish and English.
Architect: Dan Zur

The Valley of the Communities

The Valley is a massive 2.5 acre monument literally dug out of the natural bedrock. The names of over 5,000 Jewish communities that were destroyed or barely survived in the Holocaust are engraved on its 107 walls. In the center of the monument stands Beit Hakehillot, which houses a gallery for temporary exhibitions.  Visitors can also see a short film there, depicting the world that was.
Architects: Dan Zur and Lipa Yahalom

Cattle Car - Memorial to the Deportees

The Memorial to the Deportees was established at Yad Vashem as a monument to the millions of Jews herded onto cattle-cars and transported from all over Europe to the extermination camps. An original German cattle-car given to Yad Vashem by the Polish authorities stands at the center of the memorial site.  On the adjacent wall, the testimony of survivor Avraham Krzepicki is inscribed.
Architect: Moshe Safdie

The Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations

This Garden was established in honor of the thousands of non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.  Their names are engraved in alphabetical order on walls arranged according to country.