The Holocaust Memorial in Edgewood Park on Whalley Avenue

This was the first such memorial in the country to be built on public land at the direction of the Mayor, Frank Logue. The dedication of the monument in 1977 was attended by all local and State politicians and by clergymen of many faiths.

At the ground-breaking ceremony, a box containing ashes and earth from Auschwitz was interred at the site by local Holocaust survivors. The base of the structure is a Star of David and rising from its center are six rusty iron shafts symbolic of the barbed wire fences which surrounded the concentration camps. The color of the rust is reminiscent of the stains of blood. The monument is also planted with six trees honoring the six million souls that perished in the camps.

Photograph taken by Werner S. Hirsch in 1979.