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Yad Vashem (Hebrew: יד ושם ("Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority") is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament.
The origin of the name is from a Biblical verse: "And to them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name (Yad Vashem) that shall not be cut off".
Located in the western region of Mount Herzl on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem is a 180-dunam (180,000 m2) complex containing the Holocaust History Museum; memorial sites, such as the Children's Memorial and the Hall of Remembrance; The Museum of Holocaust Art; sculptures, outdoor commemorative sites such as the Valley of the Communities, a synagogue, archives, a research institute, library, publishing house and an educational center, The International School for Holocaust Studies. Yad Vashem honors non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust, at personal risk, as the "Righteous among the Nations".
Shlomo Aronson (born November 27, 1936) (Hebrew: שלמה אהרונסון) is an Israeli landscape architect. His works range from master plans for reforestation, archaeological parks and freeway planting schemes to urban plazas.
Shlomo Aronson was born in Haifa, Israel. Aronson moved to the United States to study landscape architecture as an undergraduate student and received his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. He went on to study at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he received his Master of Landscape Architecture in 1966.
Aronson lives and works in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem.
Aronson has taught at a number of academic institutions:
Prior to receiving his masters degree, Aronson worked in Lawrence Halprin’s office in San Francisco, California from 1963-1965. The field of landscape architecture was developing at this time to include large scale projects that incorporated transportation and community planning. In his foreword to “Making Peace with the Land,” Halprin recognized Aronson’s desire to work on larger scale projects and his interest in their “social context and the impact they world have on society.” Aronson was part of The Architects' Collaborative in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1966 and The Greater London Council, Architecture Department from 1966-67. Aronson joined the Jerusalem City Engineer’s Department in 1968. In 1969, Aronson become the owner and director of Shlomo Aronson and Associates, a multi-disciplinary office that includes landscape architects, architects, and urban planners in Jerusalem. Aronson was also the Chairman of the Israel Associates of Landscape Architects from 1991 to 1998.