Construction is expected to begin this summer on this city’s $135,000 Holocaust memorial, due to be completed next fall. The structure will be located on a one-acre site in the downtown area. The memorial will consist of an open air sanctuary, protected by two long cantilevered blocks of concrete separated by a narrow opening. The graves on the sanctuary walls will be appropriately inscribed. Leading up to the memorial will be trees planted in six rows, one for each million Holocaust victims.
The Holocaust memorial, an idea sponsored and conceived of in 1976 by the Baltimore Jewish Community Relations Council, has generated great interest in Baltimore lately — and not only among Jews. A fund-raising dinner for the memorial at a local church attracted 260 religious and business leaders of the city, including Mayor William Donald Schaefer, Lawrence Cardinal Shehan and Right Reverend David K. Leighton, Episcopal Bishop of Maryland.
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