(Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority)
The official Israeli authority to commemorate the heroes and martyrs who died in the Holocaust. The name, meaning "monument" and "memorial," is derived from the Bible. The authority was created by an act of the Knesset in 1953. It has archives and a library on the Nazi era and publishes on the Holocaust. Among its buildings is a memorial hall, dedicated in 1961, in which there is a memorial flame, and on the floor are inscribed the names of the most notorious of the extermination camps. A section of the memorial is dedicated to "righteous gentiles," non-Jews who helped save the lives of Jews during the Nazi reign of terror. New sections of the museum were opened in 2005.
Historical Dictionary of Israel. Bernard Reich David H. Goldberg. Edited by Jon Woronoff..