Fairfax in Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)
1944-1945: Death Marches and Liberation
Holocaust Memorial
Photographed by Craig Baker, October 2, 2023
1. 1944-1945 Marker
As millions of Jews were being killed, the Nazis also murdered hundreds of thousands of others including gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, the mentally disabled, anti-Nazis, and the chronically ill. Sadistic "medical" experiments were conducted on hundreds of healthy subjects under guise of scientific research. Those not tortured to death were left scarred for life.
Allied forces landed on Normandy on June 6, 1944. As they neared the camps, hundreds of thousands of inmates were evacuated with little food or clothing and marched or taken in open transports from camp to camp. Those unable to keep up were shot. Between 300,000-400,000 other Jews were evacuated to construct military fortifications in southern Germany and Austria. Efforts to destroy evidence of Nazi atrocities using Jewish labor failed because of the magnitude of the task.
Auschwitz was liberated on January 26, 1945 by the Soviet army; Buchenwald on April 11 by Americans; Bergen-Belsen on April 15 by the British; Dachau on April 29 and Mauthausen on May 3 by the Americans. The war ended on May 8, 1945.
From October 1945 to October 1946, the international military tribunal, deliberating in Nuremberg, tried twenty-two leading Nazis. Twelve were sentenced to death, three to life in prison, four to long terms in prison and three were not convicted.
Whether western civilization will learn to respect the rights of Jews and other minorities remains unanswered. Let us hope that the lessons of the Holocaust will never be forgotten and become an eternal warning against the dangers of Nazism, bigotry and hatred.
Erected 1992 by Los Angeles Museum of The Holocaust; American Congress of Jews from Poland; and Survivors of Concentration Camps.
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Location. 34° 4.485′ N, 118° 21.336′ 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. 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 Mexicos Alta California.
Other nearby markers. At least 11 other markers are within walking distance of this marker:
Photographed by Craig Baker, October 2, 2023
2. Holocaust Memorial
More about this memorial. This marker is part of the Holocaust Monument, six 18-foot tall triangular black granite columns with 12 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 their website for museum
Photographed by Craig Baker, October 2, 2023
3. Holocaust Memorial
Of all the Jews who bore the brand of Hitlers death camps on their arm, only a mere handful lived to tell of the horror that was the Holocaust.
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Credits. This page was last revised on November 22, 2024. It was originally submitted on October 6, 2023, by Craig Baker of Sylmar, California. This page has been viewed 158 times since then and 11 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on October 6, 2023, by Craig Baker of Sylmar, California.
