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The Holocaust Historical Markers
This series is intended for markers and memorials related to the Holocaust. Stolpersteine should not be included in this series, as they have a separate series intended exclusively for them.
Adolph Hitler and Franklin Roosevelt came into
office during a world-wide depression that
threatened democracy in both nations. In his
inaugural address, President Roosevelt told the
American people "We have nothing to fear but . . . — — Map (db m234080) HM WM
In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany initiated an ambitious military rearmament program to restore its military strength; covert air reconnaissance missions commenced. Germany began to secure its national borders.
On January 26, . . . — — Map (db m130810) HM WM
The Saar region, granted to France by the Versailles
Treaty, was returned to Germany on January 13.
German mandatory military service resumed on
March 16, in breach of the Versailles Treaty. Jews
were barred from the armed forces. . . . — — Map (db m234081) HM
Offices of the Reich leader of the SS and the chief
of the German Police were combined on June 17
under Henrich Himmler. German Police came
under SS control.
International demands to have the Olympic Games
moved from Berlin out of . . . — — Map (db m234082) HM WM
On March 21, Pope Pius XI issued "Mit Brennender
Sorge" ("with burning concern"), an encyclical
read from Catholic pulpits throughout Germany
attacking racism.
In mid-May, the Gestapo ordered the Jehovah's
Witnesses, their supporters . . . — — Map (db m234083) HM WM
Opposition to Hitler in the German foreign office
and in the military were removed during January
and February thus allowing the implementation of
his policies; the annexation of Austria in March,
and of the Sudetenland in October.
. . . — — Map (db m234085) HM WM
Bohemia and Moravia were declared a German
protectorate on March 15. A euthanasia decree
was signed on September 1, affecting mental patients,
incurably ill and social misfits. Poland was invaded by
Germany on sPSeptember 1 and by the Soviet . . . — — Map (db m234086) HM WM
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.
. . . — — Map (db m234088) HM WM
On June 22, the German army invaded the Soviet
Union and mass extermination of Jews began. The
decision to annihilate rather than exile the Jews
had been made.
Four mobile killing units (einsatzgruppen) were
assigned to execute . . . — — Map (db m234090) HM WM
On January 20, the Wannsee conference was held
to coordinate the destruction of European Jewry;
the "Final Solution". Einsatzgruppen techniques
which by late 1942 had been used to liquidate
approximately 1.4 million Jews were inadequate . . . — — Map (db m234091) HM WM
The plight of refugees discussed on April 19, 1943
at the Bermuda conference. British and Americans
prohibited food shipments to Jews and others,
refused ships for those who managed to escape, and
forbade rescue negotiations with Nazis. A . . . — — Map (db m234092) HM WM
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 . . . — — Map (db m234093) HM WM
We will never forget the genocidal slaughter of six million Jews, including one and a half million children in the Nazi Holocaust of 1933-1945.
We will never forget the cruel apathy of a world which allowed that Holocaust and the deliberate . . . — — Map (db m56540) HM
We Remember
The Six Million Jews Who Were
Murdered by the Nazis
During World War II – 1939 – 1945 (5699 – 5705)
Dedicated by The City of New Haven
The New Haven Jewish Federation
[ camp names inscribed on stones . . . — — Map (db m29050) HM
In memory of the 6,000,000 men, women, and children, victims of hatred whom the Nazi's brutally murdered only because they were Jews.....
and the world remained silent. — — Map (db m215951) WM
In honor of those who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust
1992 Jan Karski Poland •
1993 Preben Munch-Nielsen Denmark •
1994 . . . — — Map (db m150711) HM WM
"Raoul Wallenberg's mission of mercy on behalf of the United States behind enemy lines during World War II is unprecedented in the history of mankind. He is responsible for saving tens of thousands of lives during the Holocaust. A shining light in . . . — — Map (db m39926) HM
Panel 1:
Dedicated in gratitude to the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, General Dwight David Eisenhower and the valiant soldiers of all Allied Armies he led into battle.
Victorious in battle, they brought the Third Reich . . . — — Map (db m48459) HM
United States Department of Agriculture
Dedicated as a Living Reminder in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust by Secretary Dan Glickman
May 2, 2000
Yom Hashoah, Day of Remembrance
Franklin D. Roosevelt Red Bud from a seed collected at . . . — — Map (db m70618) HM
In honor of
Morris & Rose Nortman
And in memory of the 11,000,000
who perished in the Holocaust
1933 - 1945
The Jack Nortman Family — — Map (db m221136) WM
As manager of the Piotrkow Trybunalski Glass Factory, he saved over 700 Jews during the Holocaust while risking his own life. (Poland 1944)
Memoir of Alina Braun Rindler, A Survivor
Donated by the Jewish American Society for Historic . . . — — Map (db m134549) HM
The Pink Triangle
Gays in the Holocaust
World War II
Before the Nazi era, Berlin had been home to a vibrant gay and lesbian culture. At the conclusion of World War II, the Allies came upon Nazi concentration camps and other sites of . . . — — Map (db m189187) HM
Background Twenty years after the "the war to end war," World War I, a far more brutal, destructive, and deadlier conflict broke out—World War II. Fought from 1939 to 1945, the Second World War included almost every nation in the . . . — — Map (db m115794) HM WM
The Big Three Agree While the American soldiers were proving their worth in the Mediterranean (see the panel War in the Mediterranean), they still had not made a huge impact in western Europe, mainly because the British Prime Minister . . . — — Map (db m115788) HM WM
Plans for the D-Day Invasion in World War II were developed by Generals Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and George Patton. Preparations for the invasion involved six camps located in central Louisiana. This work resulted in the eventual . . . — — Map (db m124341) HM
After World War II Nazi leaders and military officers faced punishment by an International Military Tribunal of four judges representing the United States. Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. All defendants were charged with at least one of . . . — — Map (db m214662) HM
Recalling the elaborate rail system used during the Holocaust to transport millions of people to their deaths, the concrete monoliths symbolize two abandoned rail cars. Haunting messages, written by a survivor, are the only freight these rail . . . — — Map (db m183360) HM WM
The Holocaust, the German attempt to annihilate European Jewry between 1933 and 1945, took the lives of six million Jews. Although genocide was not unprecedented, the Holocaust was unique not just in its numerical magnitude. Never before had a . . . — — Map (db m103226) HM WM
Carmen Park is named in recognition of William Carmen's service to the community and his vision and leadership in creating the New England Holocaust Memorial.
Welcome to the New England Holocaust Memorial
This site is in memory of . . . — — Map (db m215601) HM WM
This plaque is dedicated to the millions who perished because of hate and intolerance, and the millions who gave their lives defending humanity in the war from 1939-1945. Those who forget history are bound to repeat it.
Presented to: The Borough . . . — — Map (db m63374) WM
In memory of the millions killed in the holocaust 1939 – 1945 Bergen County Board of Freeholders Doris Mahalick, Director D. Bennett Mazur Gerald A. Calabrese • Joseph Carucci, Jr. • John F. Curran • Harry J. Gerecke • Jeremiah F. O’Connor • . . . — — Map (db m62946) HM
We consecrate this eternal memorial flame to the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis in Europe, 1933-1945, in the most tragic of times known as the Holocaust, six million victims, including more than one million children, were martyred solely . . . — — Map (db m146691) HM
In 1944 a Swedish diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg was given a daring assignment by the United States and Swedish governments: Save the Jews of Hungary from the Nazi Holocaust. This brave hero ultimately saved 100,000 Jewish lives. As the war drew to a . . . — — Map (db m146692) HM
געדענק (Yiddish: Remember)
Remember the
6,000,000
who perished during the
Nazi Holocaust 1934-1945
לא תשכח (Hebrew: Do not forget)
Bergen-Belsen
Buchenwald . . . — — Map (db m101358) HM
A humanist writer and philosopher whose guiding principle was “To Think What We Are Doing,” Hannah Arendt though boldly about our shared political world. Born in Hanover, Germany in 1906, Arendt studied under Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers. . . . — — Map (db m222354) HM
Legendary Polish Underground Courier in World War II. The first to tell the Allies about the Holocaust when there might have been time to stop it. A Hero of the Polish and Jewish people. “A righteous among the nations”.
Professor at Georgetown . . . — — Map (db m203839) HM
For more than half a century this circular plaza at the southern end of the promenade at 83rd Street in Riverside Park has served as a place of contemplation and remembrance of the victims of Nazi brutality. The plaza takes its name from the modest . . . — — Map (db m170513) HM WM
From 1944 – 1946 Fort Ontario served as a haven for 982 survivors of the European holocaust. Erected October 25, 1981 by Syracuse Pioneer Women/NA’AMAT and the Jewish community of central New York — — Map (db m75980) HM
Born in Cleveland, Ohio to German Jewish immigrants, Hiram Halle bought his first house in Pound Ridge on Trinity Pass Road, February 1929. From 1916-1944 he was head of the petrochemical giant, Universal Oil Products. From 1933 through the onset . . . — — Map (db m134062) HM
Born in Germany in 1887, Herman Stern immigrated to America in 1903, where he took work at the Straus Clothing store in Carrington. Stern later managed the Straus’ North Dakota businesses from his store in Valley City, where he lived for the . . . — — Map (db m99291) HM
On May 28, 1961, the Kol Israel Foundation, a
Cleveland organization of Holocaust survivors,
dedicated this monument in remembrance of the
attempted genocide against the Jewish people by
Nazi Germany during World War II. The monument
is . . . — — Map (db m137158) HM
On May 5, 1945, the American troops commanded by
COl. Richard R. Seibel entered Mauthausen in
Austria, bringing freedom to 18,000 prisoners still
alive in the final Nazi death camp.
A famous Holocaust picture was taken that day by a
U.S. Army . . . — — Map (db m171217) HM
The spirit is not dead
Proclaim the word,
Where lay dead bones,
A host of armed
Men stand!
Hope your graves,
My people,
Saith the Lord,
And I shall place you
Living in your land.
Emma . . . — — Map (db m201228) HM WM
In remembrance of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust
and millions more including Prisoners of War, ethnic and religious
minorities, free masons, homosexuals, the mentally ill, developmentally
disabled, and political dissidents . . . — — Map (db m203879) HM WM
We Remember The Holocaust
And We Say... "Never Again"
We The Citizens Of Mansfield
Will Be World Watchers.
We Will Never Again Allow
The Innocent To Be Slaughtered
For Their Faith And Do Nothing
We Remember The Past So
We Can Change The . . . — — Map (db m181453) WM
Eliezer "Elie” Wiesel was a writer, professor and
survivor of the Holocaust. His writings on the
Holocaust helped the deepening understanding
of the tragic event across the world. As a
human rights activist, he worked for better
treatment . . . — — Map (db m157483) HM
This memorial to the Holocaust, once a dream for survivors who settled in this community, became a reality in 1994 and was rededicated in 2007.
The monument represents a spiritual reminder of the darkest chapter of history, when Hitler . . . — — Map (db m159633) HM
Nathan Rapoport (1911-1987) began his career in Poland, where he won a scholarship to study art in France and Italy. When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Rapoport, who was Jewish, fled to Russian controlled territory, where he worked briefly in . . . — — Map (db m192763) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m192765) HM WM
In this memorial to the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust, you can see a wailing child, a suffering mother, and a man in prayer. There are symbols of resistance—fists clutching daggers—as well as images of hope and redemption. The . . . — — Map (db m192769) HM
Welcome to the Philadelphia Holocaust Memorial Plaza. The Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation renovated this site in 2018 to promote awareness of and dialogue about the bloodiest genocide of the twentieth century.
The pillars . . . — — Map (db m192747) HM
These sections of train track were pulled from the ground near the Treblinka death camp in Poland. The Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation imbeds them here to recall the industrial efficiency that defined the Nazi's "Final Solution to . . . — — Map (db m192760) HM
En la Sombra de su Ausencia
Artistas: Michael Berkowicz y Bonnie Stolovitz
Este Monumento representa el impacto del Holocausto sobre las presetnes y futuras generaciones. Su propósito es asegurar que la sociedad civilizada . . . — — Map (db m226186) WM
1.5 Millones de Niños
El régimen nazi justificó la matanza de niños basado en su ideología de pureza y supremacía racial. Dado que los niños no cualifacaban para el trabajo forzado, los nazis los seleccionaban para las . . . — — Map (db m226179) HM WM
6 Millones Asesinados
Shoah, literalmente "catástrofe", es la voz hebrea para Holocausto. Denota la catastrófica aniquilación de las comunidades judías e Europa durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Yom Ha-Shoah es el diía . . . — — Map (db m226103) HM WM
Camino de los Justos
Este Camino de los Justos honra a personas que arriesgando sus propias vidas y las de sus familias, salvaron a judíos durante el Holocausto. Estos Justos son para todos nosotros un ejemplo de cómo, ante . . . — — Map (db m226189) WM
Camino de los Justos
Este Camino de los Justos honra a personas que arriesgando sus propias vidas y las de sus familias, salvaron a judíos durante el Holocausto. Estos Justos son para todos nosotros un ejemplo de cómo, ante . . . — — Map (db m226203) HM
Cronologia del Holocaust
1933
enero
- Hitler es nombrado canciller del Reich aleḿan.
abril
- Los nazis proclaman un coicot general contra todos los negocios judíos.
- Se prohibe a los judíos ser . . . — — Map (db m226101) HM WM
Los Justos entre las Naciones
Se conoce como "Justos entre las Naciones" a las personas no judías que arriesgaron sus vidas y las de sus familias para ayundar, esconder o rescatar judíos durante la Shoah. En todo país . . . — — Map (db m226182) HM WM
Tolerancia
El asosianto de seis millones de judíos, junto a millones de otras víctimas, fue un gran medida posible por el prejuicio, la indeferencia y el silencio. El obscuro legado de la Shoah debe ser para futuras . . . — — Map (db m226188) WM
To the six million Jews and countless people of other faiths driven to pitiless death …victims of merciless hate…
Their very presence on earth was begrudged them because they were a symbol of god's eternal law… may they never be forgotten… . . . — — Map (db m224004) WM
(front)
Between 1933 and 1945 Germany's dictator
Adolf Hitler organized and enforced Nazi policies
that ended individual freedom of speech,
freedom of the press, freedom of assembly,
and the right to privacy.
By May 1945, . . . — — Map (db m119909) HM WM
זכרר
Remember
(Star of David)
In Sacred
Memory
Of The
6,000,000
(Map Included)
(Left Panel)
During the Holocaust, 1933 - 45, six million European Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany and its . . . — — Map (db m44184) HM
A memorial erected by the people of Sumter and dedicated to the need of constant vigilance against humanity's terrible potential for self-destruction. Holocaust The voice of they brothers blood crieth unto me Auschwitz Bergen - Belsen . . . — — Map (db m224572) HM WM
The people of Tennessee dedicate these six trees as a living memorial to the six million innocent Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust
1939 - 1945
Let all the generations remember…so that a holocaust shall never again occur.
May . . . — — Map (db m213214) WM
Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds (1919-1985) of Knoxville served in the US Army during World War II. He was taken prisoner by the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge. Edmonds was held prisoner at Stalag IXA POW camp near Ziegenhain, Germany. In . . . — — Map (db m160252) HM
In 1886, the state of Texas approved a charter for congregation Sharis Israel (meaning remnant of Israel) and cemetery. The new congregation was organized by Dallas-area Jews, who first met for services in a grocery store and then in other . . . — — Map (db m156159) HM
On November 6, 1955, the New American Jewish Club, a group of immigrants and survivors of the Nazi purge of European Jewry, gathered here to unveil the three center sections of this Holocaust memorial, one of the first such memorials in North . . . — — Map (db m74268) HM WM
Diplomat and author J. Rives Childs lived here in his youth. During World War I, he served in the U.S. Army as a code breaker in France. After working for the American Relief Administration in the Balkans and the Soviet Union, he began a 30-year . . . — — Map (db m179611) HM
[RIGHT] How wonderful is it that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.' -Anne Frank, 1929-1945
[LEFT] While in hiding during the Holocaust, Anne Frank was inspired by the tree outside her window, from which . . . — — Map (db m234929) HM
[Bottom panel:]
The artist
Adolf Frankl
1903 Bratislava - 1983 Vienna
lived and worked in this house.
Here, he created the cycle of paintings and drawings
Visions from the Inferno
depicting his . . . — — Map (db m108582) HM
Von diesem Gebäude aus rettete Dr. Feng Shan Ho, Chinas Generalkonsul zu Wien, in den Jahren 1938 und 1939 nach dem Anschluss und der sogenannten Reichskristallnacht tausende Juden. Sich den Befehlen seiner Vorgesetzten widersetzend . . . — — Map (db m108805) HM
Benannt nach Elisa Springer, die 1938
aus ihrer Wohnung Strozzigasse 32-34
vertrieben wurde, mehrere KZ-Lager überlebte,
später als Zeitzeugin wirkte und sich um den
Nachlass ihres in Theresienstadt ermordeten
Großvaters, des . . . — — Map (db m210139) HM
Die Vereinssynagoge des Tempelvereins des 8. Bezirks in der Neudeggergasse wurde 1903
nach einem Entwurf von Max Fleischer im neugotischen Stil errichtet und 1938 während
des Novemberpogroms zerstört.
Zum Gedenken an die . . . — — Map (db m210756) HM WM
Zum Gedenken an die mehr als 65 000 österreichischen
Juden, die in der Zeit von 1938 bis 1945 von den
Nationalsozialisten ermordet wurden.
זכר למעלה מ-65.000 . . . — — Map (db m113355) WM
Quiconque sauve une vie
sauve l'univers tout entier
(Le Talmud)
En hommage aux "Justes" de Belgique
et aux citoyens qui, au peril de leur vie, sont venus au secours des juifs persecutes pendant l'occupation nazie
La . . . — — Map (db m229821) WM
Gedenkplaat
Ter nagedachtenis van de joodse stadsgenoten die
door de nazi's met geweld in dit gebouw verzameld
werden om op zaterdag 29 augustus 1942 naar de Kazerne
Dossin vervoerd te worden.
Vandaaruit werden zij . . . — — Map (db m229885) HM WM
In Czech:
Kolumbárium
Do choheb tohoto opevnění byly ukládaný lepenkové urny s popelem mrtvých vĕzňů. Všechny urny – bylo jich na 25 tisíc – esesáci koncem roku 1944 odvezli vĕtšinu popela vysypali do . . . — — Map (db m22744) HM
De 1942 à 1944, plus de 11000 enfants
furent déportés de france par les nazis avec la participation active du Gouvernement
Français de Vichy et assassinés
dans les camps de la mort parce que nés juifs. Plus de 500 de ces enfants . . . — — Map (db m234062) HM WM
La police militaire allemande, assistee de la police française,
a arrete 743 personnalites juives françaises, en majorite anciens combattants
et professions liberales, et les a regroupees dans le manege
"Commandant Bossus" de l'Ecole . . . — — Map (db m230255) HM WM
En memoire
de douze mille enfants juifs
deportes de france entre 1942 et 1944
arretes dans les ecoles,
dans leurs foyers et dans les rues
morts a auschwitz ou ailleurs.
Que leur sacrifice demeure vivant pour tous
et a . . . — — Map (db m240336) HM WM
A la mémoire des élèves de cette école,
déporteés de 1942 a 1944 parce que nées juives,
victimes innocentes de la barbarie nazie
et du gouvernement de Vichy.
Plus de 300 enfants du 9ème Arrondissement
ont été exterminés dans les . . . — — Map (db m240337) HM WM
De 1942 à 1944, plus de 700 enfants juifs
demeurant dans le 10ème arrondissement
furent déportés dans les camps d'extermination.
Parmi eux, 75 tout-petits furent arrachés à
leur famille et sont morts sans sépulture.
Afin d'honorer . . . — — Map (db m214803) HM WM
Arrétés par la police du Gouvernement de Vichy, complice du l’occupant nazi, plus de 11400 enfants furent déportés de France de 1942 à 1944 et assassinés dans les camps de extermination parce qu’ils étaient nés juifs.
Plus de 700 . . . — — Map (db m214850) HM WM
A la mémoire des élèves de cette école,
déportés de 1942 a 1944 parce que nés juifs, victimes innocentes de la barbarie nazie
et du Gouvernement de Vichy.
Plus de 300 enfants du 9ème Arrondissement ont été extermines dans les . . . — — Map (db m240586) HM WM
À la mémoire des enfants, élèves de cette école,
déportés de 1942 à 1944 parce qu'ils étaient nés juifs,
victimes innocentes de la barbarie nazie
avec la complicité active du gouvernement de Vichy.
Plus de 11400 enfants furent . . . — — Map (db m231370) HM WM
1941-1945
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Camp Nazi d’extermination
Victimes des persecutions antisemites
de l'occupant allemand et du gouvernement collaborateur de Vichy
76000 juifs de France, hommes, femmes
et enfants furent deportes a . . . — — Map (db m245486) HM WM
Aux femmes Aux hommes
Aux deportes
du camp de concentration de
Flossenbürg
et de ses 95 kommandos
A l’interieur de cette stele edifièe en
granit provenant de la carriere du
camp est deposee une urne contenant
des cendres . . . — — Map (db m245293) HM WM
Mauthausen
Camp
d’extermination
hitlerien
180000
hommes et femmes
y furent
emprisonnes
154000
sont morts
tortures gazes
fusilles pendus
Pour que leur
sacrifice contribue a barrer a
jamais la route
al . . . — — Map (db m245433) HM WM
KL Katzweiler-Struthof et ses 70 Kommandos
1941 1944
Nacht und Nebel
Nuit et Bruillard Conentration Camp Katzweiler-Struthof and its 70 sub-camps
1941 1944
“Night and Fog” — — Map (db m245140) WM
Sous cette pierre
repose
un peu des cendres
des sept mille
martyrs français
assassinés par les nazis
au camp de
Neuengamme
Ils sont morts
pour que
nous vivions libres
Leurs familles
et leurs camarades . . . — — Map (db m245350) WM
A la mémoire des élèves de ce lycée
déportés de 1942 a 1944 parce que nés juifs, victimes innocentes de la barbarie nazie avec la complicité du gouvernement de Vichy.
Ils furent exterminés dans les camps de la mort. Plus de 80 de . . . — — Map (db m244696) WM
A la mémoire des élèves de ce groupe scolaire déportés de 1942 a 1944 parce que nés juifs, victimes innocentes de la barbarie nazie et du gouvernement de Vichy.
Ils furent exterminés dans les camps de la mort.
Plus de 500 de ces . . . — — Map (db m231001) WM
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