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Remembrance was commissioned by Congregation Agudas Achim in Bexley, Ohio. The nine-foot-tall bronze sculpture depicts smoke rising from a crematorium, intertwined with the arm of a survivor…
Contributor:
Alfred Tibor
Places:
Columbus, United States of America
Date:
1974
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Tumarkin’s Holocaust and Revival Monument is a large, inverted pyramid balanced on its point, originally made of corten (or, weathered) steel and glass. (Its glass panels were removed a few years…
Contributor:
Yigael Tumarkin
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1975
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Glid’s memorial for the Jews of Salonika, Greece who were murdered in the Holocaust is modeled on Menorah in Flames, his 1990 monument for the murdered Jews of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Both depict a tree…
Contributor:
Nandor Glid
Places:
Thessaloniki, Greece
Date:
1997
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Memory: The Homosexual Memorial Imagination was the winner of a contest held in 1998 by Beth Simchat Torah, a pioneering LGBT synagogue located in New York City, to choose an artwork memorializing the…
Contributor:
Noreen Dean Dresser
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1998
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This Assyrian-style monument commemorates the death of Josef Trumpeldor, who was killed by Arabs in 1920 at the Jewish settlement of Tel Hai. His heroic death and the idea of “one against many” became…
Contributor:
Avraham Melnikov
Places:
Tel Hai, Mandate Palestine (Tel H̱ay, Israel)
Date:
1934
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When the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial was erected in 1948, it stood amid the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. One of the key intentions was to convey the message that Jews had not gone to their deaths in the…
Contributor:
Nathan Rapoport
Places:
Warsaw, Republic of Poland (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1948
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Memorial, like many of Bak’s paintings, evokes the ruins incurred by the Holocaust, in this case symbolized by the shards of shattered Jewish tombstones, possibly hinting at the two tablets of law. A…
Contributor:
Samuel Bak
Places:
Lausanne, Switzerland
Date:
1986
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The Hall of Remembrance is the main site for memorial ceremonies in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. Built of basalt and concrete, it offers a somber contrast with the many buildings in Israel that are made of…
Contributor:
Aryeh Elhanani
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1961
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Survivors Are Not Heroes stands five meters tall on the St. George Campus of the University of Toronto. Etrog intended the bronze sculpture to serve as a critique of traditional war memorials, which…
Contributor:
Sorel Etrog
Places:
Toronto, Canada
Date:
1967
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Like other sculptures created by Yigael Tumarkin, the Jordan Valley Memorial Monument, erected to commemorate hundreds of Israeli soldiers who died fighting terrorists in the years immediately…
Contributor:
Yigael Tumarkin
Places:
Jordan Valley, Israel
Date:
1972