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

Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs

1933 - 1945

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

1. Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs Marker

Inscription. The Holocaust
1933-1945 Now and forever enshrined in memory are the six million Jewish martyrs who perished in concentration camps, ghettos and gas chambers, in their deepest agony they clung to the image of humanity and their acts of resistance in the forests and ghettos redeemed the honor of man. Their suffering and heroism are forever branded our conscience and shall be remembered from generation to generation.

Remember Drancy • Flossenberg • Gross-Rosen • Klooga • Lwow-Janowska • Majdanek • Mauthausen • Neuengamme • Auschwitz • Babi-Yar • Belzec • Bergen-Belsen • Breendonck • Buchenwald • Chelmno • Dauchau • Ponary • Ravensbruck • Sachesenhausen • Sobibor • Stutthof • Theresienstadt • Treblinka • Westerbork

Erected 1964 by Nathan Rapaport, sculptor; presented to the City of Philadelphia by the Association of Jewish New Americans in cooperation with the Federation of Jewish Agencies of Greater Philadelphia.

Topics and series. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Law Enforcement • Religion & Religious Structures • War, World II. In addition, it is included in the The Holocaust series

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Location. 39° 57.303′ N, 75° 10.02′ W. Memorial 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. Memorial is in this post office area: Philadelphia PA 19103, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial 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 markers are within walking distance of this marker: In Loving Memory of Sam Wasserman (here, next to this marker); Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs (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

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

2. Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs Marker

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.

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

3. Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs Marker

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

4. Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs Marker

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

5. Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs Marker

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 234 times since then and 13 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on December 21, 2022, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.

Editor’s want-list for this marker. Clear, daylight photos of the memorial • Transcription of the Hebrew text • Can you help?