Philadelphia Holocaust Memorial
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This is a sculptural memorial at 17th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. The image represents victims being consumed in a vertical ring of fire.
Waymark Code: WM4WZH
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 10/07/2008
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Nathan Rapoport designed the memorial in 1964. He has constructed other memorials, including a Memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw, Poland, a monument at Vad VaShem in Jerusalem, and an American monument in Jersey City, NJ to the American Liberators of the Concentration camps.
Upon first glance this monument appears as an abstract shape, like many of the modern sculptures found throughout Philadelphia. Upon close inspection, however, one makes out the horrified faces and twisted bodies of people who seem to have been poured over each other. The screaming face of a boy amidst the flames is haunting.
Physical Address:
17th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA USA
19107
Date Dedicated: 01/01/1964
Supporting Website: [Web Link]
Fee/Donation: 0
Memorial Type: Monument/Plaque
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