Rare Books Collection
Preserving historic manuscripts and printed works documenting the Holocaust
Explore CollectionHistorical Significance
The Rare Books Collection at Yad Vashem contains over 2,300 volumes documenting the Holocaust experience. These include pre-war Jewish literature, wartime resistance publications, and post-war memoirs spanning multiple languages and formats.
1930s & 1940s
Early resistance leaflets, clandestine publications, and smuggled journals from ghettos and concentration camps
Post-War Archives
Survivors' testimonies, historical analyses, and rare post-war publications documenting the immediate aftermath
Collection Highlights
- • Original Warsaw Ghetto poetry collections
- • Handwritten survivor memoirs
- • 1940s Yiddish-language publications
Conservation Program
Our state-of-the-art conservation lab specializes in restoring fragile documents while maintaining historical integrity. Each book receives climate-controlled storage and digital archiving as part of our preservation program.
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Academic Access
Research Requests
Academic researchers can apply for direct library access to examine original documents through our formal archive program.
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Search our online database of digitized book spines, indexes, and selected page scans from our rare collection.
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