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PHOTOS: Holocaust Memorial Plaza

Wednesday, May 11, 2016
  • Holocaust survivor Max Sheiman says the new memorial plaza will make certain future generations never forget.
  • The Holocaust Memorial Plaza centers around the existing monument to six million Jewish martyrs at 16th and the Parkway.
  • The plaza will include an eternal flame and six columns that tell the stories of those martyrs.
  • The plaza will include six columns that tell the stories of those martyrs.
  • Along the back wall will be portions of an actual railroad track that transported them to concentration camps.
  • There will also be a tree with deep roots and tremendous significance. It comes to us from a concentration camp in then German-occupied Czechoslovakia.
Holocaust survivor Max Sheiman says the new memorial plaza will make certain future generations never forget.

Plans for a Holocaust Memorial Plaza were unveiled on Wednesday, May 11, 2016.

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