The Monument to the children in Yad Vashem is located at

Yad Vashem Yad Vashem ( he, יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a memorial and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; honoring Jews who fought against th ...

, Israel. It was erected in 1987 in remembrance of children killed during the reign of the

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in the

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. In the memorial's entrance area, there are several white, broken-off

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of different heights as a symbol for the lives broken off by the Nazis. The main room of the memorial is completely mirrored and reflects the light of five candles. The reflection of these lights produces the illusion of space, which symbolizes the approximately 1.5 million children and young people who died during the

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. As spectators move through the room in the sparse light of the candles, names of the deceased children and adolescents, with their age and place of death, are recited by a looped tape recording. The recording takes about three months to list all the casualties. The name of the monument, Yad Vashem (

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יד ושם for "monument and name"), comes from

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56:5,

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: "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".

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* {{coord missing, Israel Holocaust memorials Culture of Jerusalem Monuments and memorials in Mount Herzl

Children A child ( : children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. The legal definition of ''child'' generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger ...