Yad Vashem Archive
About the Yad Vashem Archive
In 1953, the Israeli Knesset enacted the Yad Vashem Law, which determined that among its other missions, the task of Yad Vashem is “to collect, examine and publish testimony of the disaster and the heroism it called forth…”. Indeed, efforts to document the Holocaust had begun long before the passage of the law. From the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany, and throughout World War II, there were those who documented the events as they were taking place, often under the harshest conditions. Immediately after the war, centers for documentation and the collection of testimonies were established in many places around the world, including Munich, Lublin, Paris, Bratislava and other locations. More...
Shoah Victims’ Names
The Archives through the years
Spotlight
Reference and Information Services
From the Collections
Featured Exhibitions
The Auschwitz Album
The only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to the mass murder at Auschwitz-BirkenauArticles about the Archives
- "Dear Mutti..." - Last Letters Between a Mother and Her Children Donated to the Yad Vashem Archives
- New Exhibition Marking 27 January – International Holocaust Remembrance Day
- Preserving Their Memories
- “When I get some bread, I’ll send it to you”
- Letter from Vienna testifies to the events of Kristallnacht
- Piece By Piece: Yad Vashem Archives Reveal the Fate of Rabbi David Halivni’s Family
- New Exhibition Features Original Ketuba Written from Memory at Bergen-Belsen
- Preserving the Memories
