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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Tumarkin’s Holocaust and Revival Monument is a large, inverted pyramid balanced on its point, originally made of corten (or, weathered) steel and glass.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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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
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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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This tombstone of Joel ben Ze’ev, who died in 1744, is topped with a carving of an eagle. Winged griffins and eagles symbolize God’s power. Only the wealthy could afford stone markers before the…
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Smotrych, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Smotrych, Ukraine)
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1744
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Garden of Stones, a garden of trees growing from stone, was planted in 2003 by Goldsworthy, Holocaust survivors, and their families at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on a second-story rooftop. The…
Contributor:
Andy Goldsworthy
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
2003
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Although Bergner did not personally experience the Holocaust, it was a recurring theme in his art. Here, in a painting in the style of a child’s drawing, a child wearing a hat, typical of others seen…
Contributor:
Yosl Bergner
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1999
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Freed deliberately designed the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to create a sense of disorientation and alienation, even terror, in keeping with the museum’s subject matter. Though it is not based on a…
Contributor:
James Ingo Freed
Places:
Washington, United States of America
Date:
1993