Boston will join other cities across the United States that have erected memorials to the Six Million Jews slaughtered in the Hitler holocaust. The Association of New Americans, many of whom lost entire families to the Nazis, has established the Z’chor Memorial Foundation which will conduct a campaign to finance the memorial.
The preliminary design by sculptor Nathan Rappoport contains a broad 32-foot arch symbolizing the rainbow, on which is lettered the Biblical admonition of God following the flood that “never again shall a holocaust envelope an entire people.” Above the arch is a pair of hands holding aloft the Torah on which are inscribed Hebrew words relating to the flood epic. In relief on the underside of the arch is a tableau depicting the struggles of the Jews during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The foundation also hopes to build a “living memorial” in the form of a museum or open air amphitheater.
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