Holy Land 2001 Yad Vashem / Holocaust Photos

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Background: Yad Vashem ("a memorial and a name", Isaiah 56.5) is a memorial to the events of the Holocaust. It records the tragic events of persecution, flight and death camps which precipitated the formation of the modern State of Israel. 1.5 million children died in the death camps. Photography is prohibited in the Children's Memorial. It consists of a whole series of displays and is still being extended.

Memorial to a Polish Jew who cared for and died with children in a death camp.
 Memorial to those who fought in the resistance movement.
Hall of Remembrance with the names of death camps. Memorial to Corrie ten Boom in Avenue of Righteous Gentiles.

Photographs © Peter J Blackburn, 2001
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