April 7, 2015
The Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation is a Holocaust memorial at 1933-1945 Meridian Avenue, in Miami Beach, Florida.
The memorial consists of several elements. The centerpiece is the 13-meter-high bronze sculpture The Sculpture of Love and Anguish which stands on a circular platform in a pool of water. It represents a realistic arm and open hand. The forearm is modeled from about 100 people who stand together partly in family groups.
At the entrance of the memorial is a statue of a grieving mother with two children. This joins a semicircular colonnade pergola with columns of pink Jerusalem stone ( Meleke ) and a black granite wall with images and texts from the period of National Socialism in Germany. . At the end of the wall there are three carved panels which tabulates the events of the seizure of power of Adolf Hitler perform in 1933 until his death in 1945.
The colonnades arbor passes into a room (Dome of Contemplation), which leads into a narrowing tunnel (The Lonely Path) of pink Jerusalem stone. At the tunnel walls are the names of the concentration camps of the Nazis . The tunnel opens to the pool with the bronze sculpture and a turn black granite wall on which the names of Holocaust victims.
April 7, 2015
The Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation is a Holocaust memorial at 1933-1945 Meridian Avenue, in Miami Beach, Florida.
The memorial consists of several elements. The centerpiece is the 13-meter-high bronze sculpture The Sculpture of Love and Anguish which stands on a circular platform in a pool of water. It represents a realistic arm and open hand. The forearm is modeled from about 100 people who stand together partly in family groups.
At the entrance of the memorial is a statue of a grieving mother with two children. This joins a semicircular colonnade pergola with columns of pink Jerusalem stone ( Meleke ) and a black granite wall with images and texts from the period of National Socialism in Germany. . At the end of the wall there are three carved panels which tabulates the events of the seizure of power of Adolf Hitler perform in 1933 until his death in 1945.
The colonnades arbor passes into a room (Dome of Contemplation), which leads into a narrowing tunnel (The Lonely Path) of pink Jerusalem stone. At the tunnel walls are the names of the concentration camps of the Nazis . The tunnel opens to the pool with the bronze sculpture and a turn black granite wall on which the names of Holocaust victims.