Yad Vashem
1957
Contemporary
memorial
The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority was established by Israeli law in 1953 and the original memorial complex on the Mount of Remembrance opened in 1957, with early plans by Munio Weinraub and Al Mansfeld carried out…
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- 1957
Munio Weinraub, Al Mansfeld
- 1987
Underground memorial to the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Holocaust, lit by a single candle reflected through cut glass into a starlike field.
Moshe Safdie
- 1995-2005
Triangular concrete prism about 198 meters long that tunnels through the mountain and replaced the earlier museum;inaugurated 15 March 2005.
Moshe Safdie
- 1995
Open-air memorial built around an original cattle car used to deport Jews to the Nazi extermination camps, cantilevered toward the Jerusalem hills.
Moshe Safdie
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