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and the enormity of that massacre. Yad Vashem imprints on visitors a searing impression
of the suffering of the Jewish people under Nazi Germany, turning tourists into pilgrims.
The museum brings the hate-filled horror of Nazism to life. It primes you for the
grounds, which are a place to think. A train car—one of countless German wagons once
jammed with people en route to death camps—sits on rails that stop in mid-air high above.
Yad Vashem tells a compelling story and stirs powerful emotions.
In the Hall of Names, a vast archive surrounds a powerful collection of faces of Jews
killed during the Holocaust. Of the roughly 6 million Jews murdered, about half have been
identified by surviving family and friends. Pages of their testimony are archived here. The
purpose: to give victims—whose deaths were as ignominious as their killers could man-
age—the simple dignity of being remembered.
