Thursday, December 22, 2011

Memorial - Yad Vashem.


Yad Vashem" or Eternal Memory - a monument, opened in 1953 on the Mountain Memorial as a symbol of eternal mourning for the 6 million Jews killed during World War II.  Memorial consists of several buildings that house the museum and hall storage of historical materials on the Holocaust.  Around the memorial is a park named after Janusz Korczak, a Polish teacher who willingly went into a concentration camp with children with Jews and was killed in a gas chamber with them.