Fairfax in Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)

1940: Blizkrieg in West/Terror in East

Holocaust Monument

Photographed by Craig Baker, October 2, 2023

1. 1940 Marker

Inscription.
The German conquest of Europe continued; Denmark capitulated in April; Belgium and Holland in May; Norway and France in June. Italy entered the war on the German side in June. The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo agreement was signed on September 27.

Territorial solutions were considered to solve the "Jewish problem". Approximately 95,000 Jews were deported to Nisko by March. A plan to establish a Jewish reservation was abandoned after international protests and intervention from Hans Frank, governor of the general government. A second solution involved deporting the Jews of Europe to the African equatorial island of Madagascar. The inability of Germany to defeat Great Britain and gain control of the seas and Hitler's decision to attack Russia doomed this alternative. Policy toward Jewish immigration changed after abandonment of the Madagascar plan. Jews were no longer allowed to emigrate. They were cut off from the free world.

Jews were isolated in ghettoes. Lodz Ghetto was sealed on April 30 and the Warsaw Ghetto gates closed in mid-November. Ghettoes suffered from over-crowding, lack of food and proper

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sanitation, ultimately precipitating epidemics (notably typhus), widespread starvation and mass deaths. Amid the misery, Jews maintained religious, cultural, educational, political, and social welfare institutions.

Erected 1992 by Los Angeles Museum of The Holocaust; American Congress of Jews from Poland; and Survivors of Concentration Camps.

Topics and series. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Civil Rights • War, World II. In addition, it is included in the The Holocaust series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1940.

Location. 34° 4.484′ N, 118° 21.338′ W. Memorial is in Los Angeles, California, in Los Angeles County. It is in Fairfax. It can be reached from The Grove Drive 0.3 miles north of 3rd Street, on the right when traveling north. Located in Pan Pacific Park, behind the Los Angeles Museum of The Holocaust. Parking lot is on Beverly Blvd, east of the post office. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 100 The Grove Drive, Los Angeles CA 90036, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in California’s Transverse Ranges.

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Photographed by Craig Baker, October 2, 2023

2. Holocaust Monument

It is also on the American Pacific Coast.

Globally, it is in North America,

on the Ring of Fire,

in the Pacific Rim,

in the Western Hemisphere,

in the Western World,

and in the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain

and also Mexico’s Alta California.

Other nearby markers. At least 12 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: 1938: Krystallnacht/Austria Annexed (here, next to this marker); 1942: Final Slaughter of Innocents (here, next to this marker); 1939: The Nazi Conquest of Europa (here, next to this marker); 1944-1945: Death Marches and Liberation (here, next to this marker); 1936: False Peace of The Berlin Olympics (here, next to this marker); 1941: Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor (here, next to this marker); 1934: The Night of the Long Knives (here, next to this marker); 1935: Legalization of Nazi Racism (here, next to this marker); 1937 (here, next to this marker); 1933: The Nazification of Germany (here, next to this marker); 1943: Ghetto Revolts and Partisans (here, next to this marker); Gilmore Field (about 800 feet away, measured in a direct line). Touch for a list and map

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of all markers in Los Angeles.

More about this memorial. This marker is part of the Holocaust Monument, six 18-foot tall triangular black granite columns with inscriptions covering the Holocaust period, 1933-1945. Construction cost $3 million. Located in Pan Pacific Park, it can be visited any time. The Museum of The Holocaust is open daily 10-5.

Also see . . . Museum of the Holocaust. Check the website for museum hours and admission. (Submitted on October 6, 2023.)

Credits. This page was last revised on October 6, 2023. It was originally submitted on October 6, 2023, by Craig Baker of Sylmar, California. This page has been viewed 221 times since then and 18 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on October 6, 2023, by Craig Baker of Sylmar, California.