DF CMI1006 International Holocaust Day HD1080 0 114 In this Friday, Feb. 15, 2019 file photo an entrance gate at the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau is pictured in Oswiecim, Poland.
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JERUSALEM, Israel - Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which honors the 6 million Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis.
Tourists have not visited Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, for nearly a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shaya Ben Yehuda, Managing Director of the International Relations Division at Yad Vashem, opened the memorial exclusively to CBN News to tell its story.
“Yad Vashem’s name [comes] from the book of Isaiah, a place of memory for each of the people that followed the way of the Lord,” Ben Yehuda told CBN News, adding that the memorial’s message to the word “is that each of those that perished in the Holocaust should be remembered.”