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© Mitch Litwer, Photographer: Litwer, Mitch, 2022 , (Negative/Photo.:   A488691)
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Samuel D. Gruber | 2022
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Samuel D. Gruber | 2022
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Holocaust memorial in Monument Park in Columbia, SC | Unknown
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2001
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Hyman, Irwin (sculptor/designer)
{"4331":"Designer Irwin Hyman was born in 1923. He studied at The Art Students League in New York, and The Clay Club of the Whitney Museum, and he was a student of Chaim Gross. His first Holocaust Memorial was the much-replicated centerpiece for the Anne Frank letters in the New York World's Fair in 1964, and he subsequently designed a dozen other Holocaust memorial monuments."}
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Gray and black granite
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History

The Columbia Holocaust Memorial Monument was unveiled and dedicated on June 6, 2001, the 57th anniversary of D-Day. The Monument memorializes South Carolina Holocaust survivors, liberators, and those who perished. It stated purpose is to educate all South Carolinians visiting the memorial about the Holocaust.

The HMM began at the urging of Jadzia Stern, and then the project was revived and expanded by her daughter Lilly Filler, who created a broad coalition of supporters beyond the Columbia Jewish community, including the University of South Carolina, U.S. Army Fort Jackson, and the City of Columbia. The committee raised $150,000 for the monument’s design and construction, and the dedication took place only 363 days after Filler convened the first committee meeting. It was attended by several hundred people.

Hyman Irwin was chosen to design the monument and to create a design that fulfilled three goals:  to remember the six million; one was to honor the survivors and the liberators; and one was to educate South Carolinians about the Holocaust.

The committee engaged Belinda Gergel and Selden Smith to develop a timeline of events from 1932 until 1946 and this historical information is inscribed on the monument.

The memorial was just the beginning. Filler used the remaining $75,000 to establish the Columbia Holocaust Education Commission (CHEC) to promote Holocaust education in the city of Columbia, and through the state. More than 20 years later, the Commission continues its work with grants to South Carolina educators and also places its travelling exhibit, “Holocaust Remembered,” in schools and community spaces every year.

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