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Photographer: J. J. Prats
Taken: June 22, 2019
Caption: Kol Israel Foundation Holocaust Memorial Wall
Additional Description: Names of the dead and listed on both sides of the wall that surrounds the memorial. Other inscriptions visible in this photograph: “The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as leave me a bit sick.” —General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. from a letter to Chief of Staff George Marshall, April 12, 1945.

•• The seal of the Kol Israel Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio — Survivors of the Holocaust •• This Memorial Wall was constructed with love, labor and materials contributed by Steve Slomovitz. •• In memoriam. This tablet is dedicated to all Jewish communities in Europe that were annihilated including their history. The synagogues were destroyed, the cemeteries destroyed, the Jewish People murdered—for no other reason that being of the Jewish faith. —Dedicated by the Kol Israel Foundation. •• Kol Israel Foundation — Survivors of the Holocaust — honors the memory of the United States Armed Forces who died defending our country so we can live in freedom. •• Kol Israel Foundation — Survivors of the Holocaust — recognizes and honors the Israel Defense forces for establishing and defending the State of Israel.
Submitted: July 26, 2019, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p485603
File Size: 12.830 Megabytes

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