Name of Monument
No official name
What/Who is commemorated?
Victims of the Holocaust (and all Jewish martyrs)
Description
The memorial consists of two wall segments painted in memory of Jewish martyrs as part of extensive mural program that covers the entire synagogue interior – nearly 8000 square feet (723 square meters. The decorative program covers a wide range of Jewish themes. The Holocaust/martyrs memorial is located inside the sanctuary, on the west (entrance) wall, beneath the women’s gallery. It consists of two dark scorched copper-colored panels with scratched abstract designs, which according to art historian Matthew Baigell, symbolize the deaths of the six million. While abstract, the viewer can - with familiarity of other well-known images from the Holocaust, including photographs of corpses at Concentration and Death camps – easily imagine the forms of emaciated bodies or of flames hidden in the ostensibly non-representational panels.
Into one panel is set an inscription adapted from the Avinu Malkeinu prayer recited on fast days and especially during the ten days of repentance between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Inscriptions
עשה למען הרוגים
ושרופים על יחוד
קדשת שמך
Translation: Do this for the sake of those who were killed and burned for the unification of Your sacred name.
Commissioned by
Anonymous donor [Eddie M. Sitt]
| 1616 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11223