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Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, is Israel’s national Holocaust memorial. It was established in 1953 by an act of the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) which defined its function as follows: “To gather unto the homeland all commemorative material regarding members of the Jewish people who fell, fought and rebelled against the Nazi enemy and German satellites, to establish a memorial for them and for the communities organizations, and institutions that were destroyed because they were Jewish, and to perpetuate the memory of the Righteous Among the Nations.” The name Yad Vashem (lit, "a monument and a name"), comes from Isaiah 56:5: "I will give them, in my house and in my walls, a monument and a name, better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall never be effaced." |
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