Jewish Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park in Cook County, Illinois — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Holocaust Memorial

Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, October 23, 2024

1. Holocaust Memorial Marker

Inscription. Lest We Forget
In memory of the six million martyrs

Topics and series. This historical marker and memorial is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Religion & Religious Structures • War, World II. In addition, it is included in the The Holocaust series list.

Location. 41° 51.367′ N, 87° 48.378′ W. Marker is in Forest Park, Illinois, in Cook County. It is in Jewish Waldheim Cemetery. It can be reached from Greenberg Avenue (18th Street) 0.1 miles west of Harlem Avenue (Illinois Route 43), on the right when traveling south. The memorial is in Jewish Waldheim Cemetery, in the northeast corner of Gate 230A, which belongs to the B'nai Bezalel Congregation. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Forest Park IL 60130, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker and memorial is in Greater Chicago.

It is also in the American Midwest

and on the Great Lakes.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once

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the Viceroyalty of New France,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

and the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Pinsk Holocaust Memorial (about 500 feet away, measured in a direct line); Chenstochow Holocaust Memorial (about 600 feet away); Anshe Chodorkov Cemetery (approx. ¼ mile away); Ever-Blooming Night and Day Flowers, 1982 (approx. half a mile away); Veterans Memorial (approx. 0.6 miles away); Jewish Veterans Memorial (approx. 0.7 miles away); Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train Wreck (approx. ¾ mile away); a different marker also named Veterans Memorial (approx. ¾ mile away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Forest Park.

More about this marker. Jewish Waldheim Cemetery is actually a combination of roughly 250 different Jewish cemeteries divided over 60 acres spanning much of the area inside Roosevelt Road, Harlem Avenue, Cermak Avenue (22nd Street) and Des Plaines Avenue in Forest Park. The various cemeteries were founded by synagogues and other Jewish organizations, and their plots are divided into gates. This particular Holocaust

Holocaust Memorial image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, October 23, 2024

2. Holocaust Memorial

Looking west down Greenberg Road.

memorial is in the west side of the cemetery at gate 230A, about a tenth of a mile west of Harlem Avenue, at the B'nai Bezalel Congregation gate. This congregation was formed in the early 1900s and merged with several other congregations through the years; its synagogue was in Woodlawn on the South Side of Chicago, not far from the University of Chicago. The congregation is believed to have folded in the 1960s.

Also see . . . Waldheim Cemetery Co. (Submitted on October 23, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.)

Credits. This page was last revised on October 24, 2024. It was originally submitted on October 23, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. This page has been viewed 143 times since then and 12 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on October 23, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.