International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Pictures: The Chamber of the Holocaust\, Israel\'s Obscure Memorial

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Pictures: The Chamber of the Holocaust, Israel's Obscure Memorial

The memorial was established in 1949, four years after the end of World War Two and a year after Israel was founded, as Holocaust survivors who came as refugees to the country sought a place to mourn their families.

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Updated:January 28, 2019, 9:43 AM IST
International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Pictures: The Chamber of the Holocaust, Israel's Obscure Memorial
A man touches a gravestone commemorating the Jewish villages and towns whose communities were wiped out by the Nazis, inside "The Chamber of the Holocaust", a little-known memorial site for Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust, in Jerusalem's Mount Zion (REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun)
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