OREANDA-NEWS. The Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Centre museum and laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame memorial.

Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Centre (meaning “an arm and a name”), was created in 1953 as a memorial to victims of the Holocaust and heroes of the Nazi genocide resistance, as well as a sign of gratitude to representatives of the nations that contributed to saving the Jewish people from annihilation.

At the centre of Yad Vashem is the Holocaust History Museum, which follows the changes in the Nazi Germany’s policy on Jews over time. The remembrance centre also includes the Hall of Remembrance with an eternal flame, Children’s Memorial, the Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations, the Valley of the Communities, and the Library. The centre’s archive is the largest collection of materials on Holocaust with over 62 million pages of documents and 260,000 photographs.