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© Samuel D. Gruber, Photographer: Gruber, Samuel D., 2022 , (Negative/Photo.:   A488966)

Who is Commemorated?

Jewish Victims of the Holocaust

Description

matzevah (gravstone) type monument is topped with an off-kilter Magen David with the word ZACHOR in Hebrew inscribed within it. The monument has an inscribed map of Europe that shows the location of major killing sites and includes a short dedicatory inscription, "In Sacred Memory of 6,000,000."

Inscription

Inscription in Hebrew inside Magen David:

זכור

Translation: Remember

Inscription in English between the Magen David and the map reads:

 In Sacred Memory of 6,000,000

Documenter
Samuel D. Gruber | 2022
Author of description
Samuel D. Gruber | 2022
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Name / Title
Holocaust Memorial at Temple Beth Shalom in Boca Raton, FL | Unknown
Monument Setting
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Completion Date
ca. 2000
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Artist/ Maker
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."}
Location
United States of America (USA) | Florida | Boca Raton, FL
| 19140 Lyons Rd, Boca Raton, FL 33434 (Century Village)
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Stone, gray granite, metal (bronze, copper (?))
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History

Century Village in Boca Raton is one of four Century Village locations built by Cenvill Development headed by Florida real estate developer H. Irwin Levy. These are large, gated communities for residents over 55 years old, and they were marketed as retirement communities attractive to Jew from the Northeast United States. Several synagogues were built in or near the communities. Beginning in the 1980s, many Holocaust survivors lived in Century Village. All the synagogues in the area appear to have prominent Holocaust memorial monuments.

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