Obj. ID: 54501
  Memorials  Memorial to the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Danvers, MA, USA, 1950

To the main object: Son of Jacob Jewish Cemetery in Danvers, MA, USA

Name of Monument

No official name

What/Who is commemorated?

Our Six Million Brethren (Six million Jewish Holocaust victims)

Description

The monument is in the far corner of suburban Jewish cemetery and occupies an elliptical space beneath on old shade tree. The space is lined with modest, medium-sized, semi-shaped boulders, all uneven. The monument is a large gneiss boulder at the end of a path, with a commemorative bronze plaque attached to the boulder. The plaque has raised letters in gold set within a floral wreath border placed with in a boulder.

Inscriptions

On the bronze plaque, in Hebrew:

זכר לאלפי רבבות אחינו בני ישראל
שמסרו את נפשותיהם על קדוש השם
בימי ממשלת זדון באירופה
בשנות תרצ"ג-תש"ה
ה' ידרוש דמם.

"צדיקים במיתתם נקראו היים"

Translation: In memory of the thousands and thousands of our brothers, people of Israel who founded their souls for the sanctification of God in the days of brutal government in Europe in the years 1933-45. God will avenge their blood. / “The righteous even in death live on" [Proverbs 14:32]

IN MEMORY OF OUR SIX MILLION BRETHREN
WHO MET THEIR DEATH DURING THE REIGN OF NAZI TERROR
1933-1945
"The righteous even in their death live on"
erected by the Congregation Sons of Jacob
1950

Commissioned by

Congregation Sons of Jacob