Skip The Line:1.5hour Audiotour - Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center Ticket

Be prepared for some hard truths, but important ones. Everyone should know this history and share it.

Yad Vashem is a memorial to the Holocaust that claimed the lives of six million European Jews. Yas Vashem is a graphic series of displays which bring the attention of visitors back to history, which can never be forgotten. Inspecting Yad Vashem takes several hours, it's a return to Hitler's Germany.

Yad Vashem is a memorial to those Jews who perished in the Holocaust and those who resisted the Nazi regime. It also commemorates the Righteous Among the Gentiles, those non-Jews who risked their lives to save their neighbors. Yad Vashem is a humbling experience. Only the Western Wall has more visitors. Yad Vashem should not be missed. Entry is free.

This is a superb museum of Holocaust material and exhibitions. My wife and I spent 6 hours reading and viewing the material. We could have stayed for 2 full days. The video presentations were excellent. We also viewed the art museum but did not have enough time to complete it. We will definitely return.

Designed by architect Moshe Safdie The Holocaust (1933–1945) was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jews by the Nazi German regime and its allies. This museum manages to make clear and precise what anti-Semitic hatred was.

Plan on spending the day. So personal. Unspeakably sad, but so necessary to see. Listening to the stories from the people who lived through them left me emotionally drained. I have seen the Holocaust memorial in Washington DC and this is much more powerful.

We loved the museum. It is very well done and such a beautiful site. We didn’t realize the entrance was free and there was no line to get in, so I’m not quite sure what good it did us to buy the tickets in advance, but I would highly recommend a visit to the museum. O

Very inspiring It's a must visit place. You just got to know about what our parents survived. So then we could understand ourselves...

Yad Vashem drives home just how much mans depravity can extend to ! It drives home the reality of the Nazi ways and reminds us that we all need to be ever vigilant of nasty rulers and demagoguery. It is shocking to see the pain inflicted by the holocaust. And wonderful to see how today life carry’s on ……… yet again with hope.

Lots of touching and emotional moments as well as a wealth of new information about the holocaust beyond Germany, Poland, France, Italy, etc.

Viator Said Open Until 4pm on my ticket but it closed at 2pm so by relying on Viator I was unable to go when I was supposed to go.

If you are planning to use the audio guide and want to listen to all of the offerings, you will need more than the 1.5 - 2.0 hours that was advertised. It will take closer to 4 hours to listen to everything. We arrived at 1430 and ran out of time. I am a person who has a good knowledge of history. In hindsight, I wished I had moved through the first portion of the museum that traced the history of antisemitism more quickly as it was familiar to me. I should have spent more time in the sections that covered post 1942 holocaust events. Also, it was distracting at times trying to listen to my audio guide while a museum display/video was playing at the same time. Overall, the museum was impressive, and I am glad that I was able to visit. I highly recommend it to visitors in Jerusalem.

A really fabulous and moving place to spend the afternoon - the children’s memorial and art museum are well worth a visit as well as the monumental main museum which works you through various themed stations before releasing you, memorably, in front of a pine forest clad view. All I’d say is that there is an awful lot to take in - I was there for 2 hours and probably took in about one twentieth of what was available. Also huge crowds of National Service youngsters made getting through the museum difficult and stressful - and made something of a mockery re the time-specific entry ticket. The fact that many of them carried rifles was also frankly odd.

Obviously, you can't really review a holocaust museum. These are my mere suggestions to enhance your visit. Essentially, the museum starts with early 20th European history and the prevalence of anti-semitism and finishes a little after the founding of Israel. If you really want to get the most out of this visit, be prepared to stay at least three hours; there's so much to see including brief videos that play throughout certain exhibits. I rented the Audio guide with the headset (it's about the size of a phone). But if you can splurge and have the time, I would highly recommend hiring a private guide which you can do on the website. I was able to briefly listen in on two different private tours during my visit and the guides provided such interesting insights and nuanced historical details as compared to the regular audio guide device ( which was still great) FYI, you'll need to leave a form of ID as collateral when you rent the audio guide. Despite it being full, you still have room to walk around. However, during the school year, you'll see students taking notes throughout the tour for school reports so they'll occasionally be in the way. Prior to the visit you need to register at their website. When I was online to check in, there were a few guests that hadn't so they had take out their phones and register there. Not a major hassle, but it'll save you a few minutes. Also double check to make sure they are open. They'll occasionally close for visits from foreign dignitaries or possibly holidays. There is so much to see here, I suggest blocking out a good part of the day for special visit.

* Do not use this link to buy your AudioTour. YOU WILL NOT SKIP THE LINE. This link does not work. I tried it -- April 2022. They had my appointed time in the system. I waited at the counter only to be told that I need to wait in the line for AudioTours anyway. * After waiting in line for the AudioTour, the time it takes for each person at the counter is too long. I had to learn how to use the machine and test it. I hope they upgrade their tech. * The Audio material is good material. If you learn best by hearing things, get it. It is mostly repetitive to the material in the museum, which includes many short, embedded videos. * To rent the AudioTour, you must leave something at the desk to assure that you will return with the machine. They prefer passports. I didn't have mine, and I was forced to leave my cell phone as collateral. I did not like doing it. * The AudioTour has a lot of content. I could not listen to it while also reading all the materials in the exhibits. Later, I asked; I was told the AudioTour has 10 hours of content. I listened to all of the beginning material (101, 102, 103, 104, 105... little in the middle, and most of the ending material (901, 902, 902..) while eating lunch in the cafeteria. * The museum took me nearly 4 hours. Anyone who does it in 1-2 hours must skip a lot of content and opportunities for reflection. Additionally, I toured the synagogue and other areas of the premises. * There is no map of the premises. The entrance to the museum is a separate building called The Visitor's Center: there are no signs in English to get to back to it. * The exhibits are bilingual in Hebrew and in English. They should be trilingual in Arabic too.

Wonderful museum…..extremely well done….organized and full of information…the grounds are beautiful…. Problem: there wasn’t any parking, Although we were with a tour guide in a tour guide SUV, we were unable to park in the tourist parking lot because we weren’t a bus….unacceptable….and disappointing. Tour guide was embarrassed as well….why are ONLY busses aloud to park there….our guide had a badge and the car we were in….was CLEARLY marked as tourist…. Things need to change so that access is available……

Thrilling glimpse of the Holocaust in all its' gruesomeness. Exquisite memorial to the 6M jewish lives lost for profiling diversity by a Pied Piper of Israel. So authentic in viewing, that many people are crying openly throughout the tour. They left nothing to the imagination , for it to be ignored and falsified none of the history.

Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center is a must see place. If you want to learn, and everyone should be continuing to learn, or just reinforce your understanding, this is a great place to go. A must see place so that what happened in Eastern Europe never happens again.

outstanding museum. I have been to many museums of this kind around the world. this is the top!!!. I was there many years ago and this is a totally new place. we were not able to finish this tour in this amount of time. i think you need at least 3 hours to really see it. it it so well done .. beautiful building.. grounds!!

This museum gives an excellent overview of many, many aspects of this tragedy. We rented the audio headsets, but did not end up using them at all. The museum is engaging on every level from the moment you step inside. Videos, photos, descriptions, artifacts, interviews. It is well-organized by time, theme, place. It is full - every direction holds something new to take in. The outdoor areas are also extremely compelling. We spent 3 hours there one day before the museum closed. The next day our children quietly asked if we could return to finish the exhibits we had missed. This is the only museum we have ever been to that the children (ages 12 and 15) asked to return to. It gives new depth and nuance to how this horror could happen, the effects, and the implications for Israel today (as well as Jews worldwide, and current political circumstances in the US and elsewhere). It really is a place that should not be missed, and adequate time should be allotted.

I thought I had learnt a lot when I visited Auschwitz in August but I soon discovered that that is only a section of the entire tragedy. I didn't realised that there was over 1,000 ghettos, one which was in Shanghai,China (controlled by Japan) and I didn't realised that some of the people were gassed in van, not just in the chambers. To me, the liberation had to happen but it wasn't a joyeous time for all, in fact people carried on dying and when those who survived returned to their home towns, some were unwelcomed. To think that they had survived such a horrific experience, to then be faced with this upon their return. I had visited a number of the sites quoted ie the Vilnius Ghetto, Ponary etc but I haven't ever seen such graphic footage which was too much for some of my fellow visitors. The recommended visit time was 1-2 hours. I was there for 3 hours, and I didn't listen to all of the audio, and I only visited this main hall, the memorial hall and the children's memorial. You could easily spend a good day here. It was a shame it was so packed but then again, it's great to see so many people visiting. Very easy to get to. Alight on the Light Rail - from the Central Station it is 6 stops to the end of the line Mt Hertzl. I walked it and it took me 45 mins. When you get to Mt Hertzl, there is a shuttle bus to take you to the entrance but it is only about 300 meters, and took me about 6 mins. Such a sobering experience. A must if you are in the area.

There is so much to see that it's impossible to see it all at one time. Having been there more than 3 times, i always wanted to go back over and over again. It is a sole searching experience. Leaves you with, how is this possible!

This was a (way too) quick tour of a visually stunning and memorable place. It was truely a once in a lifetime experience and you need 3 hours to make your way through it. 1.5 hrs. is simply not long enough to see and hear and read and absorb everything.

I spent 5 hours with the audio guide touring the museum by myself. I never spent that much time in a museum ever before. It's nothing like what you learn from European history book. This place is rich in history, I picked one of the survivor and follow her portrait and story, it guided me during the visit. You learn how she lives with her mother, then escapes, then is separated from her mother, then survives... Anyways,you have to stop at Yad Vashem! It was horrific but also beautiful in the way this place exposes a HUGE forgiveness message. What an nice remembrance and still humbling work and experience for humanity. The way you zig zag your way in darkness, out to a beautiful sunset view on Jerusalem, said it all.

This was a visit everyone should do, it was so emotional, to get more of an insight to these people, who went through this kind of persecution, in this time of our History. Its enlightening True but Tragic.

Forgiveness by the Jews is essential to start to bring healing to this horrific situation and the generations on all sides of this story who still carry the wounds which btw the same pattern is continuing today just in different places in the world 🙏✨

The rise of Hitler - the scapegoating of Jews - the torture and genocide of Jews, Romas and undesirables (homosexuals) is a horrific part of our history that Yad Vashem attempts to explain This museum is a must for all. Informative and disturbing. How could this mass murder occur? The righteous gentile - the acknowledgement of those that helped to hide the persecuted at their own peril proved there is still good in humanity. Never again.... Recommend the audio guide and take your time -

it is an ODD thing to go on vacation - that is supposed to make you feel relaxed and comfortable joyful and pleasurable - and then go to a place documenting the most vile and evil things that humans can do to each other! But if you are a decent human being with anything resembling a conscience it IS your RESPONSIBILITY to visit this place, especially given current conditions in the world, and REMEMBER that sadly ANY group of humans who can be convinced of absurdities can be convinced to commit atrocities! the 2 hour time is NOT enough here IMHO especially if you get caught up in the mix of the large tours coming through that block the isles, yet sadly march on through like cattle without looking left or right.

a museum designed to make the terror and despair of men, women and children condemned to an atrocious end “palpable”. A visit that everyone should do.

Although much younger when first visited - I remember it being more harrowing then. Very well presented and completely good audio. Just didn’t feel the emotion. Not sure whether it’s a little sterile? Also the process for paying for audio is very business like. They looked accusatively at me as I was alone ( just dropped daughter off at Sem!) and just appeared keen to take my money and take ID as security for the audio. A smile wouldn’t harm. ( the lack of emotion again). But overall - a must visit!!

We went on a Sabbath day as most of the places are closed, it was good plan to go and spend the morning there until 2pm, we took a tram until the last station it was easy and price as good - Tram, the Museum was free, we only need to pay for the audio guild, unfortunately my 7 years old could not go in. My son and I watched every survivals of the holocaust videos. We spend about 2 1/2 -3 hours there, the book shop is worth of the visit, some very interesting books. Deeply emotional touched, so many lessons to learn and message to take home for 10 and 13 years, as well as myself. The bathroom situation toward the centre of the museum, best to go before enter.

At the end of our full week tour of Israel, we visited Yad Vashem on a Sunday. While it was crowded, it's not difficult to move about. The audio tour allows you to move at your own pace. The museum effectively delivers the rememberance of the Holocaust. It also delivered the messages of (1) evil of the Third Reich, (2) the compliance, indifference, and apathy of so many people, and (3) incredible efforts and sacrifice of those who resisted and saved lives. Allow yourself at least 2 hours.

is the premier museum for this specific memorial. Tourists need to know that museum is closed on Sabbath and therefore, closes early on Friday's. We went on a Friday and it was difficult to find a taxi after we were done with the video tour. Thankfully, a kind man took us down the hill in order to hail a taxi (which we could not do) and finally take the light rail to our hotel. The museum is not to be missed when visiting Israel. The video tour will keep you on track if you are limited in time. This museum can be visited over a long period of time to do it right. I also, suggest, you might want to hire a guide. But, no matter how you tour this museum, know that it can be frighteningly busy and so crowded that you are forced to skip areas that you may be interested in. Go as early as possible to avoid this situation.

I purchased the audio tour for $7 and a map of the campus for $3. Since the campus is so well marked, a map is really not needed. The audio tour is outstanding! An enormous amount of information was given in the audio tour. The entire campus is beautiful! I recommend Yad Veshem!!!!

Excellent artifacts and arranged in a way that makes it easy to understand and flow with what really happened. When we finished, everyone was commenting on how great they though it was. In every room there were videos of people telling their story and what they thought and felt at the time. Well worth your time and one of the best I have seen. Very well done.

What a well done memorial that reminds you of the horrors of the holocaust while also sharing the resilience of the survivors and the heroism of many who helped saved lives. I was worried that the experience would devastate me and am pleased to report that while it does not sugarcoat in any way what happened, it manages to tell the story without making you cry all the way through the memorial. We had a private guide for the day who gave us some background and pointed out the symbolism of the building and grounds. That perspective really enhanced the experience for us. Well worth seeing, but allow yourself a good two hours.

The.museum is good and very educational for young travellers from all over the world. They get to encounter the turbulent and shocking events that took place in the past.

Very moving, very beautiful testimonies and period photos that touch the heart. The duty of memory is here and not elsewhere.

Simply sensational. A history lesson! Everything is very well done! You receive a headset connected to a device that tells the story at each moment. Sensational! Sad story, but impressive reality

Impressive, frightening and confronting. You'll be taken on the whole Holocaust journey. In the end too much for me.

A walk through the history and infamy of wars and Nazism in World War II. Emotional graphic and recorded testimony of the horrors against the Judis community

Extremely heavy, strong, but necessary visit. It is impressive and at the same time very scary all that a human being is capable of doing. There you understand that everything that happened was slowly, well thought out and doctrined the children from small. There you realize that what happened was much more terrifying than we imagined, or is normally reported. We need to know the past, the mistakes of the past, in order not to comment on antisemitism in any way.

Guided tour in French for 3 hours with Sharon: breathtaking! She knows her museum and history by heart. We cry with her. We learn. We're mostly mad. Thank you! (watch out for the unprofessional front desk people who forgot about us for 20 minutes) Booking can be made very simply on the website.

We finally spent 3 hours there. You have to get going. Many photo documents and testimonies. Architecture so adapted to the place

A place that shames us as humans. Knowing how much evil man can behave, how much potential for evil, that is very frightening. This place is simply the image of human decline, the cruelty received by the people of Israel by those who thought themselves superior

It was a great experience to be in Yad Vashem. A bit of a pity was that our tickets said that Yad Vashem would close at 16:00, but that they closed two hours early because "it was a day off". That wouldn't have just come out of the blue, so I would have liked to see that reflected on our tickets, and we would have arrived a few hours earlier.

SHOCKING. With my husband we went without a guide but rented the headphones that guided you in an experiential way to tears. An organization, inside the Museum, top-notch. It is a show that enters by all senses and FIRST PERSON accounts of the survivors of the different camps. The Museum is gigantic. It has a closed part and a dedicated open part, largely to honor those who helped Jews like Irena Sendler at the time. Highly emotional! We spent two hours but it deserves much more...

Yad Vashem is an amazing place and at the same time sad, you can go there by L1 tram, you arrive at the last station and about 10 minutes walking through trees you will find the museum. I recommend the use of audio guides... the goodness and evil of man is reflected in this place, since you can see images, videos, objects of everything that happened against the Jewish people during the second world war in Europe. I think it's a must-see that will make you reflect a lot...

Visiting this museum is a must if you are already in Jerusalem. Admission is free and my audio guide (borrowed locally) would have taken 8 hours if I had listened to it all. It would be better to pay for a real guide or to walk through the rooms without a guide and read the posted signs for each exhibit.