Valley of the Communities

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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.

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Valley of the Communities canonical 6

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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
YadVashem
surface form: 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 YadVashem
surface form: central memorial site at Yad Vashem
inception 1992
locatedIn Israel
Jerusalem
YadVashem
surface form: Yad Vashem
materialUsed Jerusalem stone
concrete
memorialFor Jewish communities annihilated or decimated between 1939 and 1945
namedAfter Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust
operator YadVashem
surface form: Yad Vashem
ownedBy YadVashem
surface form: Yad Vashem
partOf YadVashem
surface form: 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
Holocaust
surface form: Shoah

World War II
visitorAccess open to the public

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YadVashem hasPart Valley of the Communities
subject surface form: Yad Vashem
Mount of Remembrance contains Valley of the Communities
Lipa Yahalom notableWork Valley of the Communities
Lipa Yahalom coDesignerOf Valley of the Communities
Dan Zur notableWork Valley of the Communities
Dan Zur designed Valley of the Communities