Obj. ID: 44024
Modern Jewish Art Holocaust Memorial at the Temple Anshei Shalom in Delray Beach, FL, USA, 2000s
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish victims of the Holocaust
Description:
On a grassy lawn between the main parking area and the synagogue building of Temple Anshe Shalom in Delray Beach is a group of memorials. The main monument is a hexagonal granite drum set on a low circular brick base. From this rises an open metal work spire culminated in a Magen David. On the sides of the drum are various memorial inscriptions and attached bronze plaques. Nearby are two benches with memorial plaques. A separate stele-type monument dedicates the entire Holocaust Memorial Garden, especially to the victims of the ghetto of Shavel (Šiauliai), Lithuania.
Inscriptions:
On the bronze plaques at the front of the monument, in English:
Dedicated to
those millions
of martyred
men, women and children
who perished during the
Holocaust period
1939 – 1945
Dedicated by
the congregants, friends
and Holocaust survivors
of
Temple Anshei Shalom
On the first right facet:
זכור
Remember
Majdanek
Auschwitz
Sobibor
Buchenwald
Chelmno
Belzec
Bergen Belsen
Treblinka
Dachau
Mauthausen
On four bronze plaques on the first left facet:
Erected as a remembrance
by these survivors of the Holocaust
and others who cared
With our loving memory of
Herman Freibaum and his
entire family who perished
during the Holocaust
by
Sylvia Freibaum and Family
In memory of
the parents and families of
Abe and Roza Munn
In memory of
the Parents and families of
Louis and Rachel Elman
In memory of
Abraham Paseck
Holocaust memorial chairman
dedicated by
his family and friends
The second right facet has no inscriptions.
On the second left facet:
ה' ינקום [יקום] דמם
“May God avenge their deaths”
[list of victims]
On the back facet:
ה' ינקום [יקום] דמם
“May God avenge their deaths”
[list of victims]
On a stele, next to a bronze bas-relief of a person in the Shavel Ghetto with a Magen David on his cloths:
This Holocaust Memorial
Garden is dedicated to the
memory of the victims and
survivors of the Shavel
Ghetto, Lithuania
by Nathan and Sima Katz
February 24, 2001
Teach
us to
count
our
days [Ps. 90:12]
Nathan Katz
Commissioned by
Temple Anshei Shalom
