Puerta de Tierra in San Juan in Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico — The Caribbean (The West Indies)

Millones de Otras Víctimas
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Millions of Other Victims

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), June 7, 2023

1. Millones de Otras Víctimas / Millions of Other Victims Marker

Inscription. Click to hear the inscription.

Millones de Otras Víctimas La búsqueda de una sociead racialmente pura fue la esencia de la filosofía nazi. Junto a los 6 millones de judíos exterminados, otros grupos fueron perseguidos por su supuesta inferioridad racial o por razones políticas, ideológicas, religiosas y físicas: romaníes, polacos, comunistas, Testigos de Jehová, personas con impedimentos y homosexuales, entre otros. En esta sociedad "ideal" no había lugar para individuo alguno que no se ajustara a la estrecha definición de perfección propugnada por el régimen nazi.

Millions of Other Victims At the core of the Nazi ideology was a deadly vision of a racially pure society; a vicious form of population planning that eliminated any individual not fitting its narrow definition of perfection. Six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis, but they also targeted other groups because of their perceived racial inferiority: Romanies, Poles, and Soviet prisoners of war, among others. Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, such as communists, socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, the disabled, and homosexuals.

Erected 2012.

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

Location. 18° 27.957′ N, 66° 6.386′ W. Memorial is in San Juan in Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is in Puerta de Tierra. It is on Avenida de la Constitución (Puerto Rico Route 25) west of Calle Reverendo Gerardo Dávila, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: San Juan PR 00901, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, it is one of the Greater Antilles

on the Caribbean Sea,

on in the Atlantic Ocean,

in North America,

in the Western Hemisphere,

in the Western World,

and in the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once a Spanish colony.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: 1.5 Millones de Niños / 1.5 Million Children (here, next to this marker); Liberación / Liberation (here, next to this marker); Campos de Exterminio / Death Camps (here, next

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to this marker); La Resistencia / The Resistance (here, next to this marker); Los Justos entre las Naciones / The Righteous Among the Nations (here, next to this marker); Nunca Olvidaré / Never Shall I Forget (here, next to this marker); En la Sombra de su Ausencia / In the Shadow of their Absence (here, next to this marker); Tolerancia / Tolerance (here, next to this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in San Juan.

Additional keywords. Holocaust, LGBT, LGBTQ, 🏳️‍🌈

Credits. This page was last revised on November 22, 2024. It was originally submitted on June 17, 2023, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 159 times since then and 14 times this year. Photo 1. submitted on June 17, 2023, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.

Millones de Otras Víctimas⎯⎯⎯Millions of Other Victims

Millones de Otras Víctimas
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Millions of Other Victims