To bear witness

"Half a century has passed since the establishment of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority. We mark the jubilee by dedicating the new museum complex, which tells the tragedy of the planned extermination of the Jewish people - an act nearly carried out to completion....Founded under a law enacted by the Knesset (Israel's parliament) in Jerusalem - the city from where the prophet Isaiah delivered a vision of eternal peace - Yad Vashem has become the center of remembrance of the Jewish people...The new museum complex is one of the tools in this discourse, designed to meet the changing needs of each generation, and serve as a bridge between the world that was destroyed and the life that resumed...This book will lead the reader through the events, as they are displayed at Yad Vashem..."