A monument to the 6,000,000 European Jewish victims of the Nazi holocaust which was dedicated recently in Philadelphia as the first in the United States was preceded by 12 years by one in Baltimore.
A spokesman for the Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore said that a nine-foot shaft was erected in the Randalls town cemetery and dedicated on November 11, 1951. On it is engraved an Eleventh Commandment in Hebrew, “Thou shalt not forget. ” The monument was donated by Holiday Services of Baltimore, a group organized in 1939 by a group of German-Jewish immigrants. The group in turn organized a Burial Society which arranged for placement of the monument.
The shaft is topped by a Star of David, and the Hebrew inscription. Below this are the words “In memory of the six million victims of tyranny in Europe and to those who fell in the defense of human dignity and freedom 1938-1945. “
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