Obj. ID: 44804
Jewish Funerary Art Holocaust Memorial in the Palm Beach Memorial Cemetery in Lantana, FL, USA, 1980s(?)
To the main object: Palm Beach Memorial Cemetery in Latana, FL, USA
Who is Commemorated?
Six million Jewish martyrs
Description
The monument occupies a large square area covered by a 2-course stone platform, that is divided by a vertical composition of two large, inscribed granite slabs flanking a narrow slab that is cut at the top in the profile of a Magen David, with the whole star design inscribed onto the front of the stone. Inscriptions are only on one side of the upright slabs. Twelve flat grave slabs are set within the platform, six on each side. These are the graves of survivors.
Inscriptions
To right of Magen David:
In Gibberish Hebrew:
לכט
'ו 'ףט דףקצו דמצס
Translation: Gibberish
In English:
REMEMBRANCE IS THE SECRET OF REDEMPTION
BAAL SHEM TOV
To left of Magen David, in English:
THE HOLOCAUST
NOW AND FOREVER ENSHRINED IN MEMORY ARE
THE SIX MILLION JEWISH MARTYRS WHO
PERISHED. THEIR SUFFERING AND HEROISM ARE
FOREVER EMBLAZONED UPON OUR CONSCIENCE
AND SHALL BE REMEMBERED FROM DOR L’ DOR
GENERATION TO GENERATION
sub-set tree:
Each inscribed slab is 72” (183 cm) wide and 49” (124.5 cm) high.
The Magen David slab is 68” (172.72 cm) high.