Obj. ID: 30933
Jewish Architecture  "Forget Us Not" Holocaust Memorial at the Great Synagogue in Stockholm, Sweden, 1998

To the main object: Great Synagogue in Stockholm, Sweden

Memorial Name

"Glöm Oss Inte" (Translation: Forget Us Not)

Who is Comemmorated?

The Six Million Jewish Holocaust Victims

Description

This memorial is a wall between an entrance to the synagogue and the Jewish Community Office Building. The courtyard made by these two buildings and the memorial is marked with a bronze plaque naming and explaining the monument.

Its primary element is a line of square stelae of grey stone (granite?) that are attached to the wall. Engraved on these are the names of 8,500 Jewish Holocaust Victims, relatives of Jews living in Sweden. Interspersed between these stelae are rounded black (metal?) columns made up of linked Magen Davids

Above the stelae is the text of Isaiah 56:5 in Swedish, and Hebrew, and [a third inscription the author of this inscription was unable to transcribe, possibly Yiddish?]

To the left of the wall is a bronze plaque mounted to three of the rounded Magen David columns.

In front of the memorial is a low chain and lamposts serving as a fence, made of turquoise metal (bronze?). One of these lamposts is a Menorah instead of a conventional lamp.

Inscriptions

On the wall, above the monument:

Swedish

Jag skall get dem ett namn som inte skall su utrotat

Translation: I will give them a name that shall not be cut off (Isaiah 56:5).

Hebrew

וננתי להם בביתי ובחומתי יד ושם טוב מבנים ומבנות
שם עולם אתן לו אשר לא יכרת

Translation: I will give them, in My House and within My walls, a monument and a name better than sons or daughters. I will give him an eternal name that you will not cut off (Isaiah 56:5).

Plaque Next to the Memorial (Swedish)

"Glöm Oss Inte"

Ropen från de 6 miljoner Judar som
under åren 1939–1945 dodades
av nazisterna och deras medlöpare
ekar från dessa stenar

Här namnges 8 000 offer
vars minne vårdas av overlevande
släktingar som
räddades till Sverige

Endast med kunskap om det forflutna
kan vi bekämpa rasism,
antisemitism och intolerans

Monumentet restes gemensamt av
Jodiska Församlingen i Stockholm
och Foreningen förintelsens
overlevande med
bidrag från Sveriges regering,
Stockholms Stad,
Begravningssällskapet Chevra Kadisha
samt många enskilda

Kunung Carl XVI Gustaf invigde
monumentet den 27 September 1998

Translation: "Forget Us Not." The cries of the 6 million Jews who in the years 1939-1945 were killed by the Nazis and their accomplices echo from these stones. 8,000 victims are named here whose memory is cherished by surviving relatives who were rescued to Sweden. Only with knowledge of the past can we fight racism, antisemitism and intolerance. The monument was erected jointly by the Jewish Community of Stockholm and The Association of Holocaust Survivors, with contributions from the Swedish government, the City of Stockholm, the Chevra Kadisha Funeral Society and many individuals. King Carl XVI Gustav inaugurated the monument on September 27, 1998.

Plaque at Entrance

Swedish

"Glöm Oss Inte"

Minnesmonument over
Förintelsens offer

Av de 6 miljoner judar som
mördades under förintelsen
aterfinns här  8 500 namn
vars minne vardes av

Överlevande släktingar och
efterföljande generationer

Translation: "Forget Us Not" / Memorial to Victims of the Holocaust / Of the 6 million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust 8,500 names are found here whose memory was cherished / Surviving relatives and subsequent generations

English

"Forget Us Not"

The Memorial of the
Holocaust Victims

6 million European Jews were
murdered by the nazis
8 500 of their names are
engraved on this monument

Commissioned by

The Jewish Community of Stockholm and The Association of Holocaust Survivors