The new Archives and Library building, 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.
Photograph: the entrance to the Archives and Library building.

The Archives and Library building houses the world’s largest repository of documents and books on the Holocaust. The collection has increased significantly over the last decade due to the opening of archives in the former Soviet Union.

The Reading Room is situated on the ground floor of the Archives and Library building, and offers consultation and information services, as well as a loan service for books and archival materials.
Books, films, Pages of Testimony, photographs and archival materials may be called up and examined in the Reading Room.  Some of the materials may also be borrowed.

The Yad Vashem Archives contains approximately 6300 videotaped testimonies and about 6750 audio-taped testimonies of Holocaust survivors. It is a race against time to gather as many survivor testimonies as possible before it is too late.
Videotaped testimonies are also a powerful weapon in the struggle against Holocaust denial.
Photograph: a Holocaust survivor is filmed giving testimony.

The Film and Photo Archives contains what is essentially eye-witness testimony to the events of the Holocaust. Approximately 263,000 photographs and thousands of films and testimonies are preserved there. As in the rest of the Archives, this section is also undergoing a process of digitization. Today, every new photograph is scanned, and plans for the future include the digitization of the entire film collection.

The Document Preservation Laboratory (donated by Danek Gertner) preserves the millions of documents in the Yad Vashem archival collection, those that are acquired each year from different archives around the world and the materials donated by survivors and their families. Over 62 million pages of documentation are housed in the Yad Vashem Archives, many of which have undergone a complex preservation process.

In the Reading Room of the Archives and Library building, visitors can choose from a vast range of Holocaust-related films and videotaped testimonies, and can view them in the nine viewing booths.