Monument to the children in Yad Vashem


Monument to the children in Yad Vashem is located at Yad Vashem which was erected in 1987 in remembrance of children murdered during the reign of the NSDAP in the German Reich.
In the entrance area to this memorial there are first of all several white, broken off stelae of different heights as a symbol for the lives broken off by the murder madness of the National Socialists.
The main room of the memorial is completely mirrored and reflects the light of five candles.
Through the thousandfold reflection of these five lights an enormous size in the space is produced, which stands symbolically for the approximately 1.5 million children and young people, who became the youngest victims of the national socialist race mania and describe as probably one of the most shocking extermination acts of the Shoah.
While the spectators move through the room in the sparse light of the candles, which are often reflected, along a hand railing, the names of the murdered children and adolescents, with their age and place, are recited to the visitors by an endless tape recording. This endless recording takes about three months to repeat all the names.
A true monument to the names of the murdered; Yad Vashem got its name from : "To all of them I erect a monument in my house and in my walls, I give them a name worth more than sons and daughters: I give them an eternal name that will never be erased".