# Yad Vashem **Domain:** Holocaust remembrance / Archival institutions **Doc Type:** Developed Wiki Node **Maturity:** Developed **Collections:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]] · [[collections/US-Israel Leadership Alliance|US-Israel Leadership Alliance]] ## Definition **Yad Vashem** is Israel's official Holocaust remembrance authority, established by law in 1953. Its work joins commemoration, documentation, research, education, victim-name recovery, and recognition of non-Jewish rescuers. ## Ledger architecture [[articles/gamification/The X Ledger|The X Ledger]] reads Yad Vashem as an institutional precursor to a coupled memorial and affirmative ledger: the [[wiki/Hall of Names|Hall of Names]] preserves those whom extermination sought to erase, while [[wiki/Righteous Among the Nations|Righteous Among the Nations]] records acts that interrupted extermination. [[articles/gamification/The Golem and The Book of Life|The Golem and The Book of Life]] extends this relationship into the wider Book of Life architecture. ## Sources - [Yad Vashem](https://www.yadvashem.org/) - [[articles/gamification/The X Ledger|The X Ledger]] ## Routes [[wiki/Hall of Names|Hall of Names]] · [[wiki/Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names|Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names]] · [[wiki/Righteous Among the Nations|Righteous Among the Nations]] · [[articles/gamification/The Golem and The Book of Life|The Golem and The Book of Life]] · [[articles/gamification/The X Ledger|The X Ledger]]