Yad Vashem
Holocaust memorial complex on Jerusalem's Mount of Remembrance, with a museum, archives, and a mirrored children's memorial.
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This guide to Yad Vashem's Children's Memorial in Jerusalem follows Abraham and Edita Spiegel, who survived Auschwitz in 1944 but lost their young son Uziel there, and how their loss led architect Moshe Safdie to design a memorial unlike any other on the site. You'll walk a rock-cut ramp into a dark chamber, funded by Spiegel himself, where a single candle and hundreds of mirrors form a sky of lights, one for each child. Listen for the voice reading names as you walk.
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