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LayoutThe new Holocaust History Museum was built as a prism-like triangular structure. It is 180 meters long, with stark walls made from reinforced concrete. The museum covers an area of more than 4,000 square meters and is mostly situated below ground level. There are 10 exhibition halls, each devoted to a different chapter in the history of the Holocaust. Unlike the exhibition in the old museum, which was primarily composed of photographs, the new exhibition comprises many elements, including 280 works of art and 2,500 presentations and personal artifacts donated to Yad Vashem by Holocaust survivors, museums and memorial sites around the world. Image:Israel-Yad Vashem Sculpture.jpg Yad Vashem memorial sculpture ActivitiesYad Vashem coordinates the following activities:
MuseumImage:P61725051jt.jpg The view once you exit the museum In 1993, the Yad Vashem institute decided to build a new, larger museum to replace the old, smaller museum, which was built during the 1960s. This was in response to the construction of larger Holocaust museums in Washington D.C. and Europe. The new museum is the largest Holocaust museum in the world. It is carved into the mountain and designed to reflect the story of the European Jewish community during the Holocaust and their resurrection from the ashes in Israel. It consists of a long corridor with 10 exhibition halls, each dedicated to a different chapter of the Holocaust. The museum combines the personal stories of 90 Holocaust victims and survivors and presents in its exhibitions about 2500 personal items: artworks and letters from the Holocaust donated by survivors. The new museum also includes an auditorium, study hall, computerized data bank and memorial monuments of the more than six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. Since the 1950s, Yad Vashem has collected approximately 44,000 taped testimonies by Holocaust survivors; as the survivors age and are beginning to become less mobile, the program has expanded to visiting survivors in their homes to tape interviews. On March 15, 2005, the dedication of the new Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, Israel took place. The impressive building was designed by the worldwide renowned Jewish architect, Moshe Safdie. Leaders from 40 states and the Secretary General of the UN Kofi Annan attended the inauguration of Holocaust museum. President of Israel Moshe Katzav said that the new museum serves as "an important signpost to all of humankind, a signpost that warns how short the distance is between hatred and murder, between racism and genocide." [3] The building's triangular architectural-shape is said to represent the bottom half of a Star of David, because the world's Jewish population was cut in half as a result of the Holocaust. Righteous Among the NationsImage:YadVashem- Enterance.JPG Entrance to Historical Museum The museum also honors the Righteous Among the Nations. For example, a small garden and plaque on the grounds of Yad Vashem is dedicated to the people of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in France who, during World War II, made their town a haven for Jews fleeing from the Nazis. A few of the more than 20,000 non-Jews so honoured:
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