To Bear Witness – Holocaust Remembrance at Yad Vashem, edited by Bella Gutterman and Avner Shalev. “The new Museum Complex is designed to meet the changing needs of each generation and serve as a bridge between the world that was destroyed and the life that resumed.” The Editors, To Bear Witness—Holocaust Remembrance at Yad Vashem One visit to the new Holocaust History Museum and the new Museum of Holocaust Art is insufficient to encompass the wealth of material displayed: documents, artifacts, photographs, maps, artworks and personal testimonies. The visitor senses this, and feels he or she did not have a chance to fully absorb the wealth and variety of the exhibitions. To Bear Witness—Holocaust Remembrance at Yad Vashem is intended to help visitors' take the momentous experience home with them and digest the immense store of impressions and information provided by the Museum. The album offers an in-depth acquaintance with the Museum Complex, and can be read at various levels of interest: The reader can leaf through the hundreds of photographs—some of which are being published for the first time in the album—and glean concise information from the accompanying explanations. For those who wish to learn more, the comprehensive text presents the events leading up to and during the Holocaust, the national Jewish revival and the founding of the State of Israel, along with a description of the establishment of Yad Vashem and its various components. The layout of the album follows the structure of the Museum, chapter by chapter. A chronological description, alongside a thematic one, emphasizes the Jewish perspective—and particularly that of the individual—against a backdrop of the deeds of the murderers and the inaction of those who idly stood by. Special chapters are devoted to the acts of rescue carried out by the Righteous Among the Nations, along with rescue operations of Jews by other Jews and the heroic acts of the partisans, underground fighters and soldiers in the Allied armies. The album has been published in Hebrew and English, and is currently being translated into French, German and Spanish. A Russian translation will follow. | 
