Holocaust Memorials, Statues & Museums in North America
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Holocaust Memorials, Statues & Museums in North America compiled by: Julian H. Preisler This is a growing list which will be added to as time permits United States of America AK – at present there is no Holocaust memorial in the state. A Jewish Museum in Anchorage opening in 2013 will have a Holocaust Resource Center AL, Birmingham - Holocaust Education Center AL, Birmingham – Temple Emanu-El – Holocaust Memorial Sculpture, sculptor Cordray Parker, 1982, donated by Dorothy Steiner AL, Birmingham – Kelly Ingram Park – Roots of Courage, Branches of Hope – Horse Chestnut Tree and Plaque, donated by Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Public Library, 16th Street Baptist Church, Jewish Federation & BHEC, 2010 AL, Demopolis – Holocaust Memorial located at the Jewish Cemetery, donated by Mary Louis and Bert Rosenbush AL, Dothan – Holocaust Memorial Sculpture at Temple Emanu-El AR – at present there is no Holocaust memorial in the state. There is an Arkansas Holocaust Education Committee as part of state government. A sapling from the tree in front of the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam was donated and will be planed at the Clinton Library with a memorial included AZ, Chandler – The Holocaust & Tolerance Museum AZ, Green Valley – Green Valley Cemetery – Jewish Section – Holocaust Monument, 2012 AZ, Phoenix – Beth El Cemetery 2300 W. Van Buren, Holocaust Memorial, Photo credit: DM & TV from Waymarking.com P AZ, Phoenix – Congregation Beth El – Holocaust Memorial @ synagogue courtyard, 1981, Gale DuBrow sculptor, rededicated 2009, Photo credit: DM & TV from Waymarking.com P AZ, Phoenix – Beth Israel Memorial Park, Holocaust Memorial, Photo credit: DM & TV from Waymarking.com P AZ, Sun City – Holocaust Memorial @ Sunland Memorial Park Cemetery, Photo credit: DM & TV from Waymarking.com P AZ, Tucson – Jewish Community Center – Holocaust Memorial by Ami Shamir AZ, Tucson – U of Arizona Meyer Agron Student Center – Driftwood Sculpture Holocaust Memorial, Edmund Beir, 1986, meant to symbolize how the Jews have been tossed around like driftwood throughout history. CA, Fullerton – Temple Beth Tikvah 2011, Holocaust Memorial and Garden CA, Hollywood – Beth Olam Cemetery. 2000, six channel fountain in the ground with symbolic tree stump, bronze plaque CA, Irvine – Merage JCC of Orange County – Holocaust Memorial Garden CA, Los Angeles – Mount Sinai Memorial Park - “Memorial to the Six Million” 1966 Bernard Zackheim, Gravel garden with two dozen concrete markers denoting the names of concentration camps, ghettos and killing centers, six large wooden sculptures and an eternal flame. CA, Los Angeles – The Simon Wiesenthal Center CA, Los Angeles – Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, f. 1961, bldg 2010 Pan Pacific Park, Martyr's Memorial CA, Los Angeles – Sondra Smalley Family Sculpture Garden – Holocaust Sculpture by George Rickey 1985 CA, Los Angeles – Cedars-Sinai Hospital – Feintech Family Holocaust Memorial Water Sculpture “North of Yesterday”, 1988 CA, Lo Jolla – Lawrence Family JCC, Holocaust Memorial sculpture & Garden 1999 CA, Los Gatos – Holocaust Memorial CA, Oakland – Beth Jacob Congregation – Holocaust Memorial inside CA, Oakland – Temple Sinai – Holocaust Memorial Sculpture, Peter Boiger, 1991 CA, Ontario – Temple Sholom – Holocaust Memorial, 2003, by Jeffrey Schrier CA, Palm Desert – Civic Center Park CA, Rohnert Park – Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Grove @ Sonoma State Univ. CA, Sacramento – Home of Peace Cemetery P CA, San Diego – former East County JCC, a Holocaust sculpture in a fenced garden once existed here CA, San Diego – JCC Holocaust Memorial & Garden CA, San Diego Beth Shalom – Holocaust Sculpture, 2004 Laurie Gross CA, San Francisco – Palace of Legion of Honor – Lincoln Park CA, San Francisco – Eternal Home Cemetery – Holocaust Memorial (Colma) P CA, San Francisco – Salem Memorial Park – Holocaust Memorial (Colma), Photo Credit: James Carlson P CA, San Francisco – The Holocaust Center of Northern California CA, Valley Village – Temple Shaarey Zedeck – Holocaust Sculpture, 2000 Mario Jason CO, Denver – Babi Yar/Genocide Victims Memorial CO, Denver – University of Denver Holocaust Memorial Action Site 2010 CO, Denver – Hillel Academy – Memorial to the Holocaust & Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, The Club of New Americans, 1967 CT, Fairfield - Fairfield University Canisius Hall Holocaust Sculpture, 1982 Larry Mohr CT, Glenville – Riverside Cemetery – Holocaust Memorial CT, Hartford – Tikvoh Chadosho Cemetery – Holocaust Memorial. Tower Avenue P CT, Hartford – Wolkowysker Society Cemetery – Holocaust Memorial. Tower Avenue P CT, Manchester – Beth Sholom Cemetery Holocaust Memorial P CT, Manchester – Illing Junior high School – Children's Holocaust Memorial Garden, 2011 CT, New Haven – Holocaust Memorial @ Edgewood Park, 1st such memorial on public land 1977 P CT, Stors – U of Connecticut – Thomas J. Dodd Research Center – Holocaust Sculpture, 1997 by sculptor Dana Baldwin Naumann, “Holocaust: Never Again...Never Forget” CT, West Haven – Shara Torah Cemetery Holocaust Memorial P CT, West Hartford – JCC – Holocaust Memorial 1981 sculptor Elbert Weinberg CT, West Hartford – Chabad House Holocaust Memorial DC, Washington – Garden of the Righteous 1992 – Adas Israel Congregation DC, Washington – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1993 DE, Wilmington – Congregation Beth Emeth – Schenker Holocaust Memorial Garden & Blumenfeld Path of the Righteous Gentile, sculpture by David Klass, dedicated 2008 P DE, Wilmington – Beth Emeth Memorial Park – Holocaust Memorial DE, Wilmington – JCC – Children's Holocaust Memorial by Aharon Bezalel also a separate Garden of the Righteous Gentiles which was the first in the USA. DE, Wilmington – Holocaust Memorial @ Freedom Plaza akak Spencer Plaza (French St bet. 8Th & 9th Sts), 1979 by Elbert Weinberg FL, Boca Raton – Temple Beth Shalom Holocaust Memorial Garden 2000 FL, Boca Raton – Boca Raton Synagogue – Holocaust Garden & Memorial, FL, Boca Raton – B'nai Torah Holocaust Sculpture, 1992 by sculptor Faye GraJower FL, Boca Raton - Century Village Congregation Torah Ohr, memorial on building with small garden FL, Century Village West – Temple Beth Shalom, 1987 Irwin Hyman FL, Clearwater – Temple B'nai Israel Holocaust Memorial, 1990 Alfred Tibor FL, Davie – Holocaust Learning Center @ David Posnack JCC FL, Deerfield Beach – Temple Beth Israel Holocaust Monument, 1998 FL, Deerfield Beach – Young Israel Congregation FL, Delray Beach – Cong. Anshei Sholom – Holocaust Memorial & Garden FL, Gainesville – Holocaust Memorial @ B'nai Israel Cemetery FL, Hollywood – Holocaust Survivor and Documentation Center FL, Hollywood – Beth David Cemetery – Holocaust Memorial FL, Lantana – Palm Beach Memorial Gardens FL, Leesburg – Hillcrest Memorial Gardens – Jewish Section – Holocaust Memorial, 1998 FL, Miami Beach – Temple Beth Raphael – former synagogue now used as a private residence once was considered the only bldg dedicated to memorialize & remember the Holocaust. Most of the facade was decorated and worded in such a way to be a memorial. FL, Miami Beach – Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial P FL, Naples – The Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida, 2001 FL, North Lauderdale – Star of David Cemetery Holocaust Memorial FL, North Miami Beach – Temple Sinai of North Dade - Holocaust Memorial to the Children P FL, North Miami Beach – Riverside Gordon Memorial Cemetery (formerly Shalom Memorial Gardens) – There is a Ben Gurion Section for Holocaust Survivors 15700 NE 18th Avenue FL, Orlando – Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Florida – Maitland FL, Orlando – Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation - Holocaust memorial – a mobile tile memorial in process of being contructed. Boy Scout project. FL, Port Richey – Jewish Community Center of West Pasco – B'nai Tefillah P FL, Sarasota – Temple Beth Shalom Cemetery – Holocaust Memorial Garden, 1993 Men's Club FL, St. Petersburg – The Florida Holocaust Museum FL, Venice – Jewish Congregation of Venice – Memorial Park – Holocaust Memorial Plaque FL, West Palm Beach – Temple Beth El – Holocaust Memorial Garden 2012 FL, West Palm Beach – Star of David Cemetery – Holocaust Survivor Section FL, Weston – Menorah Gardens Cemetery – Holocaust Memorial GA, Alpharetta – Congregation Gesher L'Torah – Holocaust Memorial Wall; Monument to the Righteous Gentiles; and Holocaust Education Center GA, Atlanta – Greenwood Cemetery – Holocaust Memorial, Photo Credit: Byron Hooks P GA, Atlanta – Besser Holocaust Memorial Garden @ MJCCA Zaban Park GA, Atlanta – Living Holocaust Memorial Garden, 2008 GA, Atlanta - William Breman Jewish Heritage & Holocaust Museum GA, Fitzgerald – Evergreen Cemetery – Holocaust Memorial GA, Kennesaw – Kennesaw State University - Museum of History & Holocaust Education GA, Marietta – Congregation Etz Chaim – Holocaust Memorial Garden, 1990's GA, Savannah – Bonaventure Cemetery. Holocaust Memorial HI – at present there is no Holocaust memorial or monument in Hawaii IA, Des Moines – Holocaust Memorial Capitol Complex IA, Harlan – Harlan Community High School – Six Million Rock Holocaust Memorial, 2009 ID, Boise – Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial, 777 South 8th Street, 2002 – Photo Credit: Larry Wilson P IL, Arlington Heights – Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery – Holocaust Memorial, 1995 IL, Chicago – Paul and Gabriella rosenbaum holocaust Survivor's Garden, Michigan Avenue IL, Chicago – Jewish Waldheim Cemeteries – Pinsker Victims Holocaust Memorial IL, Chicago – Jewish Waldheim Cemeteries – Stashover Verein Holocaust Memorial IL, Chicago