Experts' Choice Award Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
What the experts agree on
Yad Vashem houses the world's largest Holocaust archive with personal artifacts and video testimonies that make the experience deeply moving. Plan several hours—this isn't a quick visit. Architect Moshe Safdie's dramatic 45,000-square-foot structure
“The effects that the Holocaust wrought on the Jewish people still reverberate strongly in the Diaspora and, especially, Israel.”
– Lonely Planet
Concierge "Safdie's 45,000-square-foot design is more than 500 feet long and thrusts dramatically upward through the compound's Mount of Remembrance before ending in a pair of curved, fluted wings."
Fodor's "Video interviews and personal artifacts individualize the experience." Full review
Afar Magazine "Visiting the museum is an educational, as well as emotional, experience and should not be rushed." Full review
U.S. News & World Report7.0
"Located about four miles from the Old City in West Jerusalem's Mount Herzl neighborhood, Yad Vashem contains the world's largest collection of information on the Holocaust." Full review
Frommer's "Down the road from Mount Herzl is a ridge called Har Ha-Zikaron (Mount of Remembrance)." Full review
