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| subheader        = '''[[Yad Vashem]]'''
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| image            = [[File:Yed Vashem - Der Garten der "Gerechten unter den Völkern".jpg|240px]]
| caption          = The Garden of the Righteous with Wall of Honor in the background
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| caption2         = The Cattle Car Memorial to the Deportees adjacent to the Garden of the Righteous
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| caption3         = Panorama of [[Yad Vashem]] complex.<ref name="panorama"/>
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| caption4         = The Avenue of the Righteous
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The '''Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations''' ({{langx|he|גַן חֲסִידִי אוּמות הָעוֹלָם}}) is part of the much larger [[Yad Vashem]] complex located on the [[Mount of Remembrance]] in [[Jerusalem]]. Along with some two dozen different structures within the Yad Vashem memorial – which is the second most-visited destination in the country after the [[Western Wall]] – the Garden of the Righteous is meant to honor those [[Gentile|non-Jews]] who during the [[Holocaust]] risked their lives to save [[Jews]] from extermination by the [[Nazis]].

The Garden was designed by landscape architects [[Lipa Yahalom]] and [[Dan Zur]] after a decision to construct a memorial where the names of the [[Righteous Among the Nations]] would be perpetuated. A most serene site of impressive simplicity, integrated into the natural surroundings of the forested hill, the Garden consists of a series of walls creating open rooms, where the names of all the Righteous who had no trees planted in their honor are engraved in alphabetical order on the walls according to their countries of origin. By the time the Garden was dedicated on August 7, 1996, close to 14,000 Righteous had been honored by Yad Vashem. Since then new names are being added every year. In 2011, the Garden was expanded and new walls were constructed.<ref name="panorama" /><ref name="MFAArchive" /><ref name="Map">{{cite web|title=Map of Yad Vashem|url=https://www.yadvashem.org/visiting/map-of-yad-vashem.html|website=yadvashem.org|access-date=5 August 2019}}</ref><ref name="Garden-of-the-Righteous">{{cite web|title=The Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations|url=https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous/milestone07.asp|website=yadvashem.org|access-date=5 August 2019}}</ref>

The entire site receives one million visitors annually.

==Background==
The Garden of the Righteous initiative was launched in 1992 by Rabbi Jeffrey Wohlberg. Around the site trees are planted everywhere, with plaques attached to each one with names and countries of origin of those being honored. They are most prominent in the Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations ''(also pictured)'' meant specifically for that purpose, with around 2,000 trees.<ref name="adasisrael.org" /><ref name="righteous/commemoration" />

Other points of interest in the complex aside from the Garden include: the Visitors' Center, Book and Resource Center, the Holocaust History Museum, the Hall of Names, the Square of Hope, the Holocaust Art Museum, the Synagogue, the Exhibitions Pavilion, the Visual Center, the Learning Center, Hall of Remembrance, Pillar of Heroism, Children's Memorial, [[Janusz Korczak]] Square, Archives and Library Building, Family Plaza, International School for Holocaust Studies,<ref name="school/about" /> Administration and Research Building, Monument to the Jewish Soldiers, Partisans' Panorama, Valley of the Communities, the [[Holocaust train|Cattle Car]] Memorial to the Deportees, [[Warsaw Ghetto]] Square, the Wall of Remembrance and others.<ref name="visiting/map" />

==Commitment==
The Garden prominently features the Wall of Honor for each country on which the names of the Righteous are inscribed. Also, the ceremonies of granting the awards are held in the Garden.<ref name="About Israel Info/Pages" /> There are three degrees of reverence granted to rescuers including those already deceased and their relatives; the presentation of the Title usually in the recipient's country by an ambassador, a special Medal in their name with Diploma awarded in Jerusalem, and the planting of a tree in the Garden of the Righteous.<ref name="israel philately.org" /> In 2010, the Square of Hope was dedicated in the honor of New York and Israeli real estate investor [[Henry Moskowitz (real estate investor)|Henry Moscowitz]].<ref>[http://www.yadvashemusa.org/documents/Dinner_10_Invite.pdf The American & International Societies for Yad Vashem bulletin] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216010829/http://www.yadvashemusa.org/documents/Dinner_10_Invite.pdf|date=2014-12-16}} November 7, 2010</ref>

==External links==
* [https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous/milestone07.asp The Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations] at Yad Vashem website
* [https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous/milestone05.asp The Dedication of the Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations] at Yad Vashem website

==Notes and references==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="visiting/map">{{cite web | url=http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/visiting/map.asp | title=Map of Yad Vashem with Legend | publisher=Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority | work=Visiting | year=2012 | access-date=October 27, 2012}}</ref>
<ref name="adasisrael.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.adasisrael.org/articlenav.php?id=112 |title=Garden of the Righteous |publisher=Adas Israel Congregation |work=Read about honorees |access-date=October 27, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912013806/http://www.adasisrael.org/articlenav.php?id=112 |archive-date=September 12, 2012 }}</ref>
<ref name="panorama">{{cite web | url=http://ww2panorama.org/panoramas/yad-vashem | title=Righteous Among the Nations | publisher=Text by Yad Vashem public relations | work=Yad Vashem panoramas | year=2005 | access-date=October 27, 2012 | author=Yaniv Sirton}}</ref>
<ref name="MFAArchive">{{cite web | url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2003/6/The%20Righteous%20Among%20the%20Nations | title=The Righteous Among the Nations | publisher=Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs | work=Spotlight on Israel | year=2008 | access-date=October 27, 2012 | author=Department of the Righteous Among the Nations, Yad Vashem}}</ref>
<ref name="school/about">{{cite web | url=https://www.yadvashem.org/education/about-school.html | title=About The International School for Holocaust Studies | publisher=Yad Vashem. The Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority | work=Teaching About the Shoah | year=2012 | access-date=October 28, 2012}}</ref>
<ref name="righteous/commemoration">{{cite web | url=https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/about-the-program/program-history.html | title=Tour of the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations (including video clip and photographs) | publisher=Yad Vashem | work=About the Righteous | year=2012 | access-date=October 28, 2012}}</ref>
<ref name="About Israel Info/Pages">{{cite web | url=http://embassies.gov.il/boston/AboutIsrael/AboutIsraelInfo/Pages/Righteous-Among-the-Nations.aspx | title=Righteous Among the Nations | publisher=Consulate General of Israel to New England | work=About Israel Information | year=2011 | access-date=October 28, 2012 | author=Department of the Righteous Among the Nations}}</ref>
<ref name="israel philately.org">{{cite web | url=http://english.israelphilately.org.il/articles/content/en/000547 | title=Righteous among the Nations | publisher=[[Israel Philatelic Federation]] | work=Articles | access-date=October 28, 2012 | location=Tel Aviv | archive-date=October 19, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019124704/http://english.israelphilately.org.il/articles/content/en/000547 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
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* {{cite web | url=http://www.gariwo.net/?lang=en | title=The gardens of the Righteous | publisher=Gariwo | work=The virtual Gardens of Europe's Righteous | access-date=October 27, 2012}}

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