Obj. ID: 44807
Memorials  Holocaust Memorial in Temple Sinai of North Dade in North Miami Beach, FL, USA, 2000

What/Who is commemorated

Children killed in the Holocaust

Description

The Holocaust Memorial monument is located in an open wooded area behind the main sanctuary building. A small metal tablet with embossed letters is attached to a short vertical concrete post nearby, to the left as one approaches the monument from the synagogue. The tablet names the monument and lists the donors and the date of deciation.

The monument sits on a concrete base in the shape of a six-pointed star (Magen David). A central hexagonal slab is made of white concrete. Six triangular slabs are joined to make the star, these are slighter more beige in color.  A narrow concrete path connects to the side of one of the triangles. Roundels with impressions of children’s hands are embedded in several of the concrete slabs. A slightly higher and much smaller hexagonal concrete slab sits on the central hexagon and from this rise six semi-circular glass columns. These are etched with images and texts invoking different aspects of the Holocaust and Holocaust remembrance. The glass columns surround a gold orb set at ground level.  Shards of blue-colored glass are embedded in the concrete surrounding the orb.

Across the top of the monument, linking the glass pillars is a weathered steel (probably corten steel) architrave with letters cut into each segment which together over the six segments provide an inscription celebrating children as “the Pillars of Our Future.”  

Inscriptions

On tablet attach to post, in English:

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL SCULPTURE

DEDICATED IN GRATITUDE TO THE

FOUNDING SUPPORTERS FOR THEIR

COMMITMENT AND GENEROSITY TO THIS PROJECT

[LIST OF NAMES]

DEDICATED

MAY 1ST 2000                                               26 NISSAN 5760

TEMPLE SINAI OF NORTH DADE

RICHARD H BERGMAN, PRESIDENT

JAMES L SIMON, RABBI

RALPH P KINGSLEY, D.D., RABBI EMERITUS

Letters cut into six sections of steel atop the monument, in English:

CHILDREN

THE PILLARS

OF OUR FUTURE

REMEMBER

THE SIX MILLION

5760 

There are many texts inscribed into the glass, including:

“I never saw

another butterfly”

“We can build a future

only if we remain loyal

to our traditions and

have reverence for our

past. bearing witness

to our past gives us

meaning to our present

and a renewed sense of

values for our children

for the future.”

“Education and

remembrance are the

only cure for hatred

and bigotry

“I was almost too

Old to be put on the

Kindertransport,

Because my seven-

Tenth birthday was

Coming up soon. My father

Owned a glove factory in

Dresden, and I worked there.

I graduated from the

Jewish high school. I had really wanted to

Go to college, but Jews were not admitted.

“Compassion is the

way to treat all

humanity, because

everyone and

everything in

creation matters.”

“The Admissions Building of the Auschwitz camp [beneath engraved photo]

“The Yellow Star that Dutch

Jews were ordered to wear” [beneath engraved photo]

Commissioned by

Temple Sinai of North Dade