Valley of the Communities

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Holocaust memorial open-air monument outdoor sculpture

The Valley of the Communities is a massive open-air monument at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem commemorating the destroyed Jewish communities of Europe and North Africa during the Holocaust.

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Holocaust memorial → open-air monument → outdoor sculpture →
architecturalStyle	brutalist-influenced landscape architecture →
category	Holocaust memorials in Israel → Monuments and memorials in Jerusalem → Yad Vashem →
coordinateLocation	31.774°N 35.175°E →
country	Israel →
dedicatedTo	destroyed Jewish communities of Europe → destroyed Jewish communities of North Africa → victims of the Holocaust →
genre	memorial architecture →
hasApproximateNumberOfCommunitiesCommemorated	over 5000 →
hasArchitect	Dan Zur → Lipa Yahalom →
hasLanguage	English → Hebrew → other European languages →
hasPart	labyrinthine passageways → open-air plazas → stone walls bearing names of Jewish communities →
heritageDesignation	central memorial site at Yad Vashem →
inception	1992 →
locatedIn	Israel → Jerusalem → Yad Vashem →
materialUsed	Jerusalem stone → concrete →
memorialFor	Jewish communities annihilated or decimated between 1939 and 1945 →
namedAfter	Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust →
operator	Yad Vashem →
ownedBy	Yad Vashem →
partOf	Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial complex →
purpose	commemoration → education about the Holocaust →
significantEvent	official opening ceremony in 1992 →
surroundedBy	Jerusalem Forest →
theme	Holocaust remembrance → commemoration of destroyed Jewish communities →
topicalConcept	Jewish history → Shoah → World War II →
visitorAccess	open to the public →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Dan Zur → Lipa Yahalom →	notableWork
Lipa Yahalom →	coDesignerOf
Mount of Remembrance →	contains
Dan Zur →	designed
Yad Vashem →	hasPart