Ohel Yizkor

Ohel Yizkor is the central gathering structure and the ceremony hall of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem.

Its walls are built of roughly hewn basalt stones of various sizes, brought from the Beit She'an Valley.

The names of the places are engraved in white lettering reliefs above the black floor, designed by the typographer and calligrapher Yerachmiel Schechter.

Beneath the black marble stone in the center of the hall, ashes brought from extermination and concentration camps are buried.

The ashes were buried outside, on the mountain slopes, in the fifties, and in 1961 were transferred to Ohel Yizkor with its inauguration.

Entrance gates to the Ohel Yizkor