Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust established in 1953 through the Memorial Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament.
It consists of a memorial chamber, a historical museum, an art gallery, a Hall of Names, an archive, the "Valley of the Destroyed Communities," and an educational center. As well, Non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust, often at great personal risk, are honored by Yad Vashem as the "Righteous Among the Nations".
A small garden and plaque on the grounds of the 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 honored here as "Righteous among the nations":
- Johan Benders
- Varian Fry
- Marie-Rose Gineste
- Hermann Friedrich Graebe
- Aristides Sousa Mendes
- Czeslaw Milosz
- Dorothea Neff
- Jonas Paulavicius
- Oskar and Emilie Schindler
- Suzanne Spaak
- André Trocme
- Magda Trocme
- Raoul Wallenberg
- Johan Hendrik Weidner