The Archives and Library Building

The new Archives and Library Building, which opened in March 2003, uses state-of-the-art equipment to preserve the world’s most comprehensive repository of documents and books on the Holocaust – over 62 million pages of documentation, about 90,000 titles, approximately 263,000 photographs and thousands of films, including video-taped testimonies.  The Archives collection includes personal testimonies, Nazi documents, diaries, memoirs and documentation of war crimes trials.
All original documents that come into Yad Vashem’s hands, and all personal artifacts we receive, such as diaries, maps, letters, photographs and drawings, are processed and restored in the preservation laboratory underneath the Archives and Library Building.
The Library houses the world’s largest collection of books and periodicals on the Holocaust. For further information, click here.