Obj. ID: 30933
Memorials "Forget Us Not" Holocaust Memorial at the Great Synagogue in Stockholm, Sweden, 1998
To the main object: Great Synagogue in Stockholm, Sweden
Memorial Name
"Glöm Oss Inte" (Translation: Forget Us Not)
Who is Comemmorated?
The Six Million Jewish Holocaust Victims
Description
This memorial is a wall between an entrance to the synagogue and the Jewish Community Office Building. The courtyard made by these two buildings and the memorial is marked with a bronze plaque naming and explaining the monument.
Its primary element is a line of square stelae of grey stone (granite?) that are attached to the wall. Engraved on these are the names of 8,500 Jewish Holocaust Victims, relatives of Jews living in Sweden. Interspersed between these stelae are rounded black (metal?) columns made up of linked Magen Davids
Above the stelae is the text of Isaiah 56:5 in Swedish, and Hebrew, and [a third inscription the author of this inscription was unable to transcribe, possibly Yiddish?]
To the left of the wall is a bronze plaque mounted to three of the rounded Magen David columns.
In front of the memorial is a low chain and lamposts serving as a fence, made of turquoise metal (bronze?). One of these lamposts is a Menorah instead of a conventional lamp.
Inscriptions
On the wall, above the monument:
Swedish
Jag skall get dem ett namn som inte skall su utrotat
Translation: I will give them a name that shall not be cut off (Isaiah 56:5).
Hebrew
וננתי להם בביתי ובחומתי יד ושם טוב מבנים ומבנות
שם עולם אתן לו אשר לא יכרת
Translation: I will give them, in My House and within My walls, a monument and a name better than sons or daughters. I will give him an eternal name that you will not cut off (Isaiah 56:5).
Plaque Next to the Memorial (Swedish)
"Glöm Oss Inte"
Ropen från de 6 miljoner Judar som
under åren 1939–1945 dodades
av nazisterna och deras medlöpare
ekar från dessa stenar
Här namnges 8 000 offer
vars minne vårdas av overlevande
släktingar som
räddades till Sverige
Endast med kunskap om det forflutna
kan vi bekämpa rasism,
antisemitism och intolerans
Monumentet restes gemensamt av
Jodiska Församlingen i Stockholm
och Foreningen förintelsens
overlevande med
bidrag från Sveriges regering,
Stockholms Stad,
Begravningssällskapet Chevra Kadisha
samt många enskilda
Kunung Carl XVI Gustaf invigde
monumentet den 27 September 1998
Translation: "Forget Us Not." The cries of the 6 million Jews who in the years 1939-1945 were killed by the Nazis and their accomplices echo from these stones. 8,000 victims are named here whose memory is cherished by surviving relatives who were rescued to Sweden. Only with knowledge of the past can we fight racism, antisemitism and intolerance. The monument was erected jointly by the Jewish Community of Stockholm and The Association of Holocaust Survivors, with contributions from the Swedish government, the City of Stockholm, the Chevra Kadisha Funeral Society and many individuals. King Carl XVI Gustav inaugurated the monument on September 27, 1998.
Plaque at Entrance
Swedish
"Glöm Oss Inte"
Minnesmonument over
Förintelsens offer
Av de 6 miljoner judar som
mördades under förintelsen
aterfinns här 8 500 namn
vars minne vardes av
Överlevande släktingar och
efterföljande generationer
Translation: "Forget Us Not" / Memorial to Victims of the Holocaust / Of the 6 million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust 8,500 names are found here whose memory was cherished / Surviving relatives and subsequent generations
English
"Forget Us Not"
The Memorial of the
Holocaust Victims
6 million European Jews were
murdered by the nazis
8 500 of their names are
engraved on this monument
Commissioned by
The Jewish Community of Stockholm and The Association of Holocaust Survivors
sub-set tree:
Bronze
Turquoise Metal (bronze?)
Black Metal (unknown)
Menorah: 2.4 m high
King Carl Gustav XVI of Sweden inaugurated this memorial in 1988.
Martínez, Victoria, "The Stockholm Holocaust memorial – A restoration of human dignity and a warning against inhumanity," The Local, August 3, 2017, https://www.thelocal.se/20170803/the-stockholm-holocaust-memorial-a-restoration-of-human-dignity-and-a-warning-against-inhumanity (accessed December 10, 2023)
"The Holocaust Memorial" Judiska Församlingen i Stockholm, https://jfst.se/for-english-speakers/the-holocaust-memorial/ (accessed July 12, 2023)