Mayor Samuel W. Yorty has proclaimed Nov. 15 to Dec. 15 “Martyrs Memorial Month,” and has asked the entire community to support the Jewish Federation-Council in its plans to memorialize the six million Jews who died in the holocaust.
The JFC has established a committee to build a memorial “as a tangible tribute to these victims, as a reminder of the Jewish community’s remembrance of the past, as an inspiration for generations to come, and as a declaration that knowledge of history can serve to avoid its repetition.”
The memorial is to be part of the present Jewish Community Library, on the grounds of the Federation and is to be a memorial-archives-library complex. It will house, in addition to the memorial, Jewish community archives, historical documents pertaining to the Nazi era, exhibits and a sanctuary. A fund-raising drive is under way.
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