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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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Best known for his New York City street photography, Speier was always on the lookout for unexpected and often humorous juxtapositions of incongruous elements to photograph. In this scene, visitors to…
Contributor:
Len Speier
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1975
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Tumarkin’s Holocaust and Revival Monument is a large, inverted pyramid balanced on its point, originally made of corten (or, weathered) steel and glass.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…
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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…
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Noreen Dean Dresser
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1998
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Whiteread’s memorial for Austrian Jewish victims of the Holocaust is located in Vienna in a square known as the Judenplatz. Sometimes called the Nameless Library, the steel and concrete structure has…
Contributor:
Rachel Whiteread
Places:
Vienna, Austria
Date:
2000
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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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German Chancellor Willie Brandt went down on his knees at the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on a trip to Poland. He was there to sign the Treaty of Warsaw, a key element of his “Ostpolitik,”…
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Photographer Unknown
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Warsaw, Polish People’s Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1970
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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…
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Yigael Tumarkin
Places:
Jordan Valley, Israel
Date:
1972
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Sarah Soncino, who died in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul, Turkey) in 1735, was a member of the prominent Soncino family, which established a printing press there in 1530, one in a long line of…
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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1735