יער הקדושים | |
![]() Scroll of Fire Monument in the Forest of the Martyrs | |
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Location | outskirts of West Jerusalem, Israel |
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Opening date | 1951 |
Dedicated to | The victims of the Holocaust |
Forest of the Martyrs (Hebrew: יער הקדושים, romanized: Ya'ar HaKdoshim) is a forest on the outskirts of West Jerusalem, Israel. It is on the western edge of the Jerusalem Forest near Beit Meir. It was planted as a memorial to those who died in the Holocaust and contains six million trees, symbolizing the six million Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators in World War II.