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Sunday to Thursday: ‬09:00-17:00

Fridays and Holiday eves: ‬09:00-14:00

Yad Vashem is closed on Saturdays and all Jewish Holidays.

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Jews gathered for deportation; near the train station in Bochnia, Poland, September 1942.
Jews gathered for deportation; near the train station in Bochnia, Poland, September 1942.

Jews gathered for deportation; near the train station in Bochnia, Poland, September 1942.
A group photograph at a wedding in the Bochnia Ghetto, Poland, 1942.
A group photograph at a wedding in the Bochnia Ghetto, Poland, 1942.

A group photograph at a wedding in the Bochnia Ghetto, Poland, 1942.
The bodies of Jews who have been hung from an electricity pylon in Bochnia. The photograph is taken from an album belonging to a soldier from a Luftwaffe Building Brigade stationed in Poland, 1939 – 1940.
The bodies of Jews who have been hung from an electricity pylon in Bochnia. The photograph is taken from an album belonging to a soldier from a Luftwaffe Building Brigade stationed in Poland, 1939 – 1940.

The bodies of Jews who have been hung from an electricity pylon in Bochnia. The photograph is taken from an album belonging to a soldier from a Luftwaffe Building Brigade stationed in Poland, 1939 – 1940.
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