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Obj. ID: 46069
Jewish Funerary Art
  Holocaust Memorial in the Star of David Memorial Gardens Cemetery in North Lauderdale, FL, USA, before 1993(?)

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

Who is Commemorated?

­Jews who perished in the Holocaust, and specifically those named on the plaques affixed to the memorial.

Description:

The memorial is a large rectangular bronze plaque installed in an alcove within a wall of graves fronted by a colonnade along the north side of the Star of David Memorial Gardens Cemetery. The sides walls of the alcove are lined with six rows of stacked graves which do not appear to be associated with Holocaust victims or survivors. The large plaque is attached to the north wall at ground level and set between two tall banks of glass-block windows.

The plaque itself has its inscriptions at the top, symbols for a Holocaust survivor organization and the admonition to “Remember” on the left, and the seal of the United States of America on the right. Beneath are two small rectangular memorial plaques and most of rest of the face of the memorial is left empty.

Inscriptions

THIS MEMORIAL IS TO SERVE AS A REMINDER

TO JEWS ALL AROUND THE WORLD THAT WE SHALL NEVER

FORGET OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT PERISHED

IN THE HOLOCAUST

 

PROCEEDS FROM CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS MEMORIAL WILL BE FORWARDED

TO THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM

 

On the left side: 

In Hebrew:

זכור

Translation: Remember

HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR

REMEMBER

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Name/Title
Holocaust Memorial in the Star of David Memorial Gardens Cemetery in North Lauderdale | Unknown
Object Detail
Monument Setting
Date
before 1993 (?)
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Location
United States of America (USA) | Florida | North Lauderdale, FL
| Star of David Memorial Gardens Cemetery and Funeral Chapel 7701 Bailey Rd,
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Bronze
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49” x 49” (124.46 cm x 124.46 cm)
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0
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Custom
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History/Provenance

The Star of David Memorial Gardens Cemetery was founded in the 1970s and occupies 80 acres on landscaped grounds. Burials includes in-ground interment, mausoleum entombment, lawn crypts, columbaria, and cremation niches.

The history of this memorial is not known, but it appears to have been an effort to provide cemetery commemoration for Holocaust victims, presumably relatives of survivors in Broward County area.

According to the inscription, proceeds from selling space for memorial plaques were to go the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that opened in Washington, DC in 1993.  In fact, only two plaques were ever attached in memory of Shlomo and Chana Gerszt; and Moishe and Chana Libetsky; all of Lodz, Poland

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Author of description
Samuel D. Gruber | 2022
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Computer Reconstruction
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