Slide Title

Rehovot: Memorial to the Holocaust Plaza at the Weizmann Institute of Science

Photographer/Creator

Chet Smolski, Rhode Island College
Dani Karavan

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Date

3-1980

Description

The Memorial to the Holocaust Plaza was designed by Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan and completed in 1972. It is a memorial plaza at the the Weizmann Institute of Science, the center piece of which is a bronze and stone sculpture representing a torah scroll that has been split in half. This photograph shows inscription of names and quotes on the walls surrounding the plaza.

Notes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dani_Karavan#List_of_projects (accessed October 20, 2011)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dani_Karavan (accessed October 20, 2011)

Rights

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Creator 2 Dates

1930 -

Creator 2 Role

Sculptor

Building Style

"size:431,286 image:../../Smolski Box 3/0906Scan-101112-0001.jpg imagemac:/Collections/Smolski Box 3/0906Scan-101112-0001.jpg"

Subject Headings

Architecture -- Monuments -- Memorials -- Israel;

Country Name

Israel

City Name

Rehovot

Recommended Citation

Smolski, Chet and Karavan, Dani, "Rehovot: Memorial to the Holocaust Plaza at the Weizmann Institute of Science" (1980). Browse All. 701.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/701