The Valley of the Communities

The Valley of the Communities extends across 2.5 acres of natural bedrock, featuring stone walls with engravings of over 5000 Jewish community names.

Architects Lipa Yahalom and Dan Zur designed this memorial in 1992 to document the Jewish communities that existed for centuries before the Holocaust.

The arrangement of 107 walls follows the geographic layout of Europe and North Africa, representing the distribution of Jewish settlements before World War II.

Visitors access the Valley through Yad Vashem complex, where they can explore the extensive network of paths between massive stone walls.

Each engraved name on the stone walls represents an entire community with its own traditions, institutions, and daily life patterns.

Location: Yad Vashem

Location: Jerusalem

Inception: 1992

Architects: Lipa Yahalom, Dan Zur

GPS coordinates: 31.77356,35.17125

Latest update: March 3, 2025 04:01