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Article: For the six million: Moshe Safdie's redesign of Jerusalem's Yad Vashem memorial campus presents the Holocaust narrative in a much more personal light.(MUSEUM DESIGN)
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- Building Design & Construction
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- April 1, 2005
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As Israel's second most popular tourist site, after the Western Wall, the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum takes its visitors on an intense, emotional journey of one o f the twentieth century's most dreadful events.
Situated on a small mountain in western Jerusalem, Yad Vashem attracts more than two million patrons per year. This includes every Israeli high school student and soldier, who are required by state law to visit the site.
It was with a view to this next generation that the organization decided it was time to rebuild the original exhibit hall and add new facilities.
"We needed to rearrange ourselves for a world without [Holocaust] ...