The Artifacts Collection

The Artifacts Collection at the Yad Vashem Museum is a vast mosaic of personal memories. The Collection’s uniqueness lies in the extent of its contents and the manner in which the items were collected. Most of the artifacts are connected to the biographies of people who personally experienced the Holocaust, and so the story behind the artifact usually reveals the fate of its owner. In this way the artifacts give faces and names to the victims of the Holocaust, both those who perished and those who survived. The Artifacts Collection of Yad Vashem’s Museum includes more than 27,000 items that were donated over the years by Holocaust survivors or their families, as well as artifacts received from various organizations in Israel and abroad. The collection includes a wide variety of artifacts connected to the events that unfolded in Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, that reveal different aspects of the Holocaust