Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem is Israel’s official memorial to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. Roughly translated into English it means, "Museum of the martyrs and heroes of the Holocaust". The Museum consists mostly of monuments in honor of Holocaust victims and the monuments are spectacular but there are also authentic objects. Some of these are one of the White buses that transported Jewish prisoners from concentration camps to Sweden and Denmark, and a small boat used to evacuate Jews from Denmark to Sweden. A place in Yad Vashem is called the garden of the righteous and is established to honor none-jews who risked their lives to help and protect Jews in Nazi-occupied areas. The Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is one of them. German business man Oskar Schindler is another. But along those famous and well-known people there are also totally unknown people who risked their life by hiding och aiding jews during the war.