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  Holocaust memorial in the Beth David Memorial Gardens (Levitt Weinstein Jewish Funeral Home and Cemetery) in Hollywood, FL, USA, 1986

© Samuel D. Gruber, Photographer: Gruber, Samuel D., 2022

Memorial Name

The Phoenix Tree

Who/What is Commemorated?

Victims of the Holocaust, partisans, ghetto fighters, liberators, Righteous Among the Nations, and Holocaust survivors.

Description:

The memorial is a granite stele on a horizontal granite slab, situated at the end of a paved path. 

Its front side has a design that includes flames around a tree with most trunks cut, but some still growing. An arm, with the Star of David in its background, reaches from the flames and bears a concentration camp number. Presumably, the tattoo number is that of the artist’s parent. The horizontal slab features a dedication to the Holocaust victims in Hebrew and English.

A metal plaque with a menorah at the foot of the slab gives the name of Sallie Kaye, a “second generation survivor” who died in Israel in 1976.

On the back side of the memorial, there are depictions of an open book with a quill, the Star of David, a dedication in English and a list of killing places.

Inscription:

On the back:  

Honor and glory
to our
heroic defenders,
ghetto fighters, partisans, 
soldiers and liberators
righteous gentiles,
and survivors.

On the back of the horizontal slab:

Auschwitz-Birkenau. Bergen-Belsen
Babi-Yar. Trblinka. Maidanek
Dachau. Chlmno. Sobibor. Ponar
Teresienstadt. Buchenwald. Mauthausen

 

Front side:

On the horizontal slab, in Hebrew: 

 יזכור אל השואה

Translation: Remember, God, the Shoah.

Remember the Holocaust
Its 6 000 000 martyred and heroes
The Phoenix Tree

On the plaque beneath the monument:

In blessed memory of
our unforgettable daughter & sister
Sallie Kaye
U.S.A. 1956 - Israel, 1976
Second generation survivor
"child of the Holocaust"

 

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Name/Title
Holocaust memorial in the Beth David Memorial Gardens (Levitt Weinstein Jewish Funeral Home and Cemetery) in Hollywood, FL | Unknown
Object Detail
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1986
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United States of America (USA) | Florida | Hollywood, FL
| 3201 N 72nd Ave, Hollywood, FL 33024
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Granite
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History/Provenance

A “second generation survivor” is buried at the memorial which appears to have been designed by her brother, Percy Peretz Kaye, and erected in 1986.

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Documenter
Samuel D. Gruber | 2022
Author of description
Samuel D. Gruber, Vladimir Levin | 2022, 2024
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