📌 2015, The 'Teardrop' – Holocaust Memorial Garden, Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds TL 8555 6403

A work by Vanessa Hill of the Land & Sculpture Design Partnership. The sculpture commemorates the murder of 57 Jews in Bury St Edmunds on Palm Sunday, 19th March 1190. It takes the form of a stainless steel teardrop on a round, single tier brick base in-filled with 57 cobbles – one for each life remembered. The sculpture is located on the site where the annual holocaust memorial services take place in Bury. The interpretation text explains the symbolism of the sculpture ''The teardrop is a natural and universal symbol of pity and persecution, of human suffering and sorrow. It is made from polished stainless steel; its mirrored surface reflects back to us the role we all must play in opposing humanity’s inhumanity.''

 

The Teardrop – Holocaust Memorial, commissioned by The Memorial Garden Trust 2015.

The Artist – www.flickr.com/gp/139375961@N08/G2W2n21LEg

 

Information sourced from - artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-teardrop-holocaust-memori...

 

THIS

GARDEN IS THE

VENUE FOR THE ANNUAL

HOLOCAUST

MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE

HELD EACH YEAR ON

27TH JANUARY

FOR ALL VICTIMS

OF GENOCIDE.

 

IT ALSO COMMEMORATES

THE MASSACRE OF

57 JEWISH RESIDENTS

NEAR TO THIS PLACE ON

PLASM SUNDAY

19TH MARCH 1190.

 

JANUARY 2015.

 

Memorial plinth - www.flickr.com/gp/139375961@N08/GUx4T6Vfnm

 

 

Photos taken from a previous visit from September 2018 – www.flickr.com/photos/139375961@N08/shares/0iZ78C6NV2

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