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Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs´ and Heroes´ Remembrance Authority, better known as the Jerusalem Holocaust Museum, is an exhibition complex located in Har Hazikaron, a hilltop west of the city. Established in 1953 through a law passed by Israel´s Parliament, it aims to perpetuate the memory of the victims of the Shoah (Holocaust) in order to eliminate hate, racism and bigotry in generations to come. Yad Vashem was created to commemorate the six million Jews murdered between 1933 and 1945 by the Nazis and their collaborators. Likewise, it remembers the heroism and the resistance of the Jewish partisans and the combatants of the ghetto uprisings, as well as the deeds of the Righteous Among the Nations. In 1963, Yad Vashem created this title, which is currently held by over 22,000 people from more than 30 countries, for non-Jews who risked their own lives to save Jews.
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