Logan Square in Philadelphia in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs

Nathan Rapoport

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), December 17, 2022

1. Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs Marker

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Nathan Rapoport (1911-1987) began his career in Poland, where he won a scholarship to study art in France and Italy. When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Rapoport, who was Jewish, fled to Russian controlled territory, where he worked briefly in a labor camp and later as an artist. He immigrated to the United States in 1950. The Holocaust was a frequent subject of Rapoport's works, which stand today in Poland, Israel, New York City, and elsewhere.

Rapoport's Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs (bronze, 1964) was the first public Holocaust memorial in the United States. It was commissioned by a group of civic leaders and Holocaust survivors, including Dalck Ferth, Harold Greenspan, Abram Schnaper, Joseph Smukler, and the Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Philadelphia. Together with the Association of Jewish New Americans and the Federation of Jewish Agencies of Greater Philadelphia, they presented Rapoport's monument to the City of Philadelphia on April 26, 1964. In 2018, this complex symbol of suffering, resilience, death, and hope was enhanced by the present memorial plaza which was built by the Philadelphia

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Holocaust Remembrance Foundation.

Erected 2018 by USC Shoah Foundation.

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Arts, Letters, Music • Law Enforcement • Religion & Religious Structures • War, World II. In addition, it is included in the The Holocaust series list. A significant historical date for this entry is April 26, 1964.

Location. 39° 57.305′ N, 75° 10.02′ W. Marker is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia County. It is in Logan Square. It is at the intersection of Arch Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway, on the right when traveling west on Arch Street. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Philadelphia PA 19103, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Southeast Pennsylvania. It is also in the American Northeast

and in the Mid-Atlantic.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

New Netherland,

and one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other

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Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), December 17, 2022

2. Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs

markers are within walking distance of this marker: Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs (here, next to this marker); In Loving Memory of Sam Wasserman (here, next to this marker); a different marker also named Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs (here, next to this marker); Theresienstadt Tree (a few steps from this marker); Bearing Witness / Human Equality (a few steps from this marker); Protecting Life and Liberty / Totalitarianism (a few steps from this marker); Liberation / The Master Race (a few steps from this marker); Death Camps / American Democracy (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Philadelphia.

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Credits. This page was last revised on February 2, 2023. It was originally submitted on February 28, 2022, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 299 times since then and 9 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on December 21, 2022, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.