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

Who is Commemorated?

More than 1,600 Jews deported from Sopron to Auschwitz

Description

The monument is situated on an elongated triangular space in a park across from the former Orthodox synagogue, designed by architect János Schiller (1859–1907)and built in 1990-91. Since the monument was dedicated, a parking lot has been inserted in the park around the space of the monument. As of 2022, it is now surrounded by parked cars.

The sculpture consists of a tall concrete slab set on a concrete base, on which the sculpture has signed his name. The vertical slab represents a wall of a dressing room of the Brikenau gas chamber. On this are “hung” bronze replicas of four jackets with yellow stars attached, awaiting owners who will not return.  Each jacket hangs below an oval plaque with a number: 610, 611, 612, 613. The culmination with the number 613 seems to be a reference to the number of Torah commandments.

Below, on the “floor” are piled bronze replicas of shoes, eyeglasses, and children's toys. Above the hanging clothes bronze letters spell out in Hebrew the Shema prayer, and over this, two more versions of the letters of the prayer rise and separate as they reach the top edge of the vertical “wall” slab, and some letters even extend upward beyond the edge. The repeating Hebrew words of the Shema ascend like flames (or souls). The Shema prayer is also inscribed on the base in Hebrew, Hungarian, and a transliteration.

A low metal fence surrounds the monument. This is fashioned in metal Hebrew letters that spell the prayer/exhortation "May the memory of the righteous be blessed.”

Inscriptions

On the front side of the base:

שמע ישראל יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד

In the upper part of the front side:

שמע ישראל יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד

610, 611, 612, 613

On the right side of the base:

Halljad, Izrael, 
Örök Istenünk, az Örökkévalo egvetlen! 

On the left side of the base:

Sma Jiszrael
Adonaj Elohénu Adonaj echad

On the back side of the monument:

A 60 éve elhurcolt 1860 soproni zsidó polgár emlékére
Állíttatta
A kultúrális örökség minisztériuma
Dr. Hiller István Miniszter
és
Sopron megyeijigú város önkormányzata
Walter Dezsö Polgármester
2004 július 4.
"Áldott legyen az igazak emleke" 
זכר צדיק לברכה

On the fence, in Hebrew:

זכר צדיק לברכה

Translation: May the memory of the righteous be blessed

Commissioned by

Municipality of Sopron

Jewish Community of Sopron

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Holocaust memorial in Sopron | Unknown
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2004
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Kutas, László
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Samuel D. Gruber | 2022
Architectural Drawings
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Computer Reconstruction
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Negative/Photo. No.
A554088