Architect of new part: Moshe Safdie (Israeli/Canadian)
Finished and opening in 2005 with presidents and ministers from 60 countries.

entrance

yad Vashem = A memorial and a name
for 6 million murdered jews by "civilized cultural europeans"
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main entrance to new part

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old entrance

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forever burning flame in the older part

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the final station - trains of animals - turned into death trains where jews were brought to constration camps, now the cabin is overlooking jerusalem

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hall of new wing

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museum model with old and new part

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some exhibits -

number of jews in countries in europe, middle east and north africa before WW2

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keeping last dignity in the camps

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The yellow star of david jews were forced to wear to identify them
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The thousands of shoes the germans tried to burn quickly to conceal the mass murder when allied forces entered the camps

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Concentration camp - model of the gas chambers and crimatoriums
where thousands of people were gased to death then burnt each day

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The "house of names" stores 4.5 million names that could be recovered of the murdered, because whole families and single people were murdered without records and Nazis burnt records before allied forces freed the camps

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house of names - witness papers of the dead archive

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Children of the gheto statue

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Path of destroyed communities

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getto warsaw rebellion, the only one that even tried
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From darkness to light, death to rebirth

Holocaust survivors coming to Israel
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end of the path: the amazing sight of jerusalem

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"tree of life"

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sadly:(

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Article on Architectural Record:

Jerusalem, Israel
Moshe Safdie and Associates

Moshe Safdie offers a memorial journey through the depths of a Jerusalem hillside with his Yad Vashem history museum
By Andrea Oppenheimer Dean

Only in Jerusalem. Place plays a central role in the new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem, Israel’s National Memorial to the Martyrs and Heroes of the Holocaust. The building, by Moshe Safdie, FAIA, expresses in eloquent architectural shorthand the nation’s raison d’être. As Chaim Weizman, Israel’s first president, described it, the Nazi years divided the world into two kinds of countries: those where Jews could not stay and those to which they could not escape. Had it not been for Israel, six and a half million, instead of six million, Jews would have perished in the Holocaust.

On the Mount of Remembrance, a verdant hillside dotted with evergreens and wild flowers overlooking Jerusalem’s western outskirts, Safdie’s new history museum crowns Yad Vashem’s recently revitalized 45-acre campus. The recent master plan includes a bridge to the history museum, linking it to the existing complex, which includes a 1986 children’s memorial by Safdie, as well as a Holocaust art museum, synagogue, and visitors’ center. The history building’s program called for more than 40,000 square feet of exhibition space. Because the architect did not want to build on “this fragile lovely landscape,” he explains, he tunneled a 575-foot-long, triangular concrete volume into it. On opposing sides of the hill, the museum’s entrance and exit emerge from the earth in dramatic cantilevered platforms.