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Holocaust Memorials and Monuments
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- Social Studies
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Holocaust Memorials and Monuments
Explore images of memorials and monuments to the Holocaust located in Europe and the United States.
![This memorial was designed by Leon Suzin and sculpted by Nathan Rapoport. Its western side depicts Jewish partisans who fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising of 1943.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-05/Ch11_image11_Medium_res.jpg?itok=Y6ZCbwt6)
![This memorial was designed by Leon Suzin and sculpted by Nathan Rapoport. Its western side depicts Jewish partisans who fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising of 1943.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-05/Ch11_image11_Medium_res.jpg?itok=Y6ZCbwt6)
![This memorial was built on the site of Warsaw’s Jewish ghetto. When it was unveiled in 1948, the city still lay in ruins all around it.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-05/Ch11_image13_Medium_res.jpg?itok=2eGjz8Hq)
![This memorial was built on the site of Warsaw’s Jewish ghetto. When it was unveiled in 1948, the city still lay in ruins all around it.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-05/Ch11_image13_Medium_res.jpg?itok=2eGjz8Hq)
![In Kassel, Germany, artist Horst Hoheisel created a “counter-memorial” marking the site where a majestic fountain built by a Jewish citizen once stood; it had been destroyed by Nazis in 1939.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-05/Ch11_image15_Medium_res.jpg?itok=CVzqfD00)
![In Kassel, Germany, artist Horst Hoheisel created a “counter-memorial” marking the site where a majestic fountain built by a Jewish citizen once stood; it had been destroyed by Nazis in 1939.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-05/Ch11_image15_Medium_res.jpg?itok=CVzqfD00)
![Four golden squares with inscriptions are built into the sidewalk.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-08/Ch11_image16_2000resolution.jpeg?itok=L34UuOh3)
![Four golden squares with inscriptions are built into the sidewalk.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-08/Ch11_image16_2000resolution.jpeg?itok=L34UuOh3)
![This Berlin, Germany, memorial was designed by Dani Karavan and opened in 2012. The triangular stone at the center of the pool holds a fresh flower which is replaced every day.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-05/Ch11_image17_Medium_res.jpg?itok=AXS3VFBA)
![This Berlin, Germany, memorial was designed by Dani Karavan and opened in 2012. The triangular stone at the center of the pool holds a fresh flower which is replaced every day.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-05/Ch11_image17_Medium_res.jpg?itok=AXS3VFBA)
![Large stones, with plants sprouting from them, on the balcony of a building.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-06/Garden_of_Stones_Memorial_2006_FH229491.jpg?itok=Pm-ZkKtq)
![Large stones, with plants sprouting from them, on the balcony of a building.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-06/Garden_of_Stones_Memorial_2006_FH229491.jpg?itok=Pm-ZkKtq)
![Organic sculptural memorial of rocks with trees in them](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-06/Garden_of_Stones_Memorial_2012_FH229499.jpg?itok=TImww7e4)
![Organic sculptural memorial of rocks with trees in them](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-06/Garden_of_Stones_Memorial_2012_FH229499.jpg?itok=TImww7e4)
![Miami Beach is home to a large number of Holocaust survivors, who commissioned this memorial by architect Kenneth Treister in 1990. The outstretched arm is almost four stories tall.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-05/Ch11_image20_Medium_res.jpg?itok=ovNJ8BXP)
![Miami Beach is home to a large number of Holocaust survivors, who commissioned this memorial by architect Kenneth Treister in 1990. The outstretched arm is almost four stories tall.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-05/Ch11_image20_Medium_res.jpg?itok=ovNJ8BXP)
![Sixty pairs of shoes mark the site in Budapest, Hungary, where fascist Arrow Cross militiamen shot Jews and threw their bodies into the river in 1944 and 1945. The memorial opened in 2005.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-04/Shoes_On_The_Danube_Bank_Memorial_FH229489.jpg?itok=84l8EpVA)
![Sixty pairs of shoes mark the site in Budapest, Hungary, where fascist Arrow Cross militiamen shot Jews and threw their bodies into the river in 1944 and 1945. The memorial opened in 2005.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-04/Shoes_On_The_Danube_Bank_Memorial_FH229489.jpg?itok=84l8EpVA)
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Memorial, Western Side
This memorial was designed by Leon Suzin and sculpted by Nathan Rapoport. Its western side depicts Jewish partisans who fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising of 1943.
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Memorial
This memorial was built on the site of Warsaw’s Jewish ghetto. When it was unveiled in 1948, the city still lay in ruins all around it.
Aschrott Fountain
In Kassel, Germany, artist Horst Hoheisel created a “counter-memorial” marking the site where a majestic fountain built by a Jewish citizen once stood; it had been destroyed by the Nazis in 1939.
Stolpersteine
Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in Sušice, Czech Republic, mark the site where the four members of the Gutmann family lived before they were murdered in the Holocaust.
Memorial to Roma and Sinti Victims of National Socialism
This memorial in Berlin, Germany, was designed by Dani Karavan and opened in 2012. The triangular stone at the center of the pool holds a fresh flower which is replaced every day.
Garden of Stones Memorial, 2006
Sculptor Andy Goldsworthy created this memorial at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City in 2003. Small oak trees were planted by Holocaust survivors in a hole within each stone.
Garden of Stones Memorial, 2012
Nine years after this memorial was created, the saplings have grown into large trees whose trunks have become part of the boulders.
Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach
Miami Beach is home to a large number of Holocaust survivors, who commissioned this memorial by architect Kenneth Treister in 1990. The outstretched arm is almost four stories tall.
Shoes on the Danube Bank Memorial
Sixty pairs of shoes mark the site in Budapest, Hungary, where fascist Arrow Cross militiamen shot Jews and threw their bodies into the river in 1944 and 1945. The memorial opened in 2005.
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