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Yad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust established in 1953 through the Memorial Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament.It consists of a memorial chamber, a historical museum, an art gallery, a Hall of Names, an archive, the "Valley of the Destroyed Communities," and an educational center. As well, non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust, often at great personal risk, are honored by Yad Vashem as the " Righteous Among the Nations".
A small garden and plaque on the grounds of the Yad Vashem is dedicated to the people of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in France who, during World War II, made their town a haven for Jews fleeing from the Nazis.
A few of the more than 20,000 non-Jews honored here as "Righteous among the nations":
- Johan Benders
- Varian Fry
- Marie-Rose Gineste
- Hermann Friedrich Graebe
- Aristides Sousa Mendes
- Czeslaw Milosz
- Dorothea Neff
- Jonas Paulavicius
- Traian Popovici
- Oskar and Emilie Schindler
- Suzanne Spaak
- André TrocméAndre Trocm born April 7, 1901 died June 5, 1971, was a pastor in the French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, who urged his Protestant congregation to hide Jewish refugees from the Holocaust of the Second World War. Inspired by spiritual leader Charles Guil
- Magda Trocmé
- Raoul WallenbergRaoul Wallenberg ( August 4, 1912 [date of death uncertain]) was a Swedish diplomat and a member of the influential Swedish Wallenberg family. As a Legation Counsellor in Budapest, he used his diplomatic status to save many Hungarian Jews during the later
- Johan Hendrik WeidnerJohan Hendrik Weidner (French: Jean Henri English: John Henry ( October 22, 1912, Brussels, Belgium May 21, 1994, Monterey Park, California, United States) was a highly decorated hero of World War II. Johan Weidner, born to Dutch parents, grew up in Collo
1 See also
- List of people who helped Jews during the HolocaustThis is a list of people who helped victims to escape from the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. Leaders Folke Bernadotte Swedish diplomat, who negotiated the release of 27,000 people (a significant amount of which were Jews) to hospitals in Sweden Jan
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Holocaust Memorials
