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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
Dedicated on September 29, 1991
by the immigrant community
from the former Soviet Union
to commemorate the 50th anniversary
of the Babi Yar Massacre.
Names of those who perished
during World War II
are encapsulated into this monument.
. . . — — Map (db m250246) HM WM
The Butterfly Project, started in 2006 at San Diego Jewish Academy, was founded by educator Jan Landau and artist Cheryl Ratter Price.
This artistic and educational project memorializes the 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust and . . . — — Map (db m254303) HM
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
Andrιe And Suzanne Romain, of Emmeville, Belgium, rescued several Jewish children, including Charles Rojer, the youngest of three children in Brussels, Belgium. After the German invasion, he was first sent alone at the age of seven to hide in a . . . — — Map (db m260270) HM
Artis Amsterdam Zoo became a safe haven for many avoiding capture during the years of Nazi occupation of The Netherlands, including France Verdoner Kan of Wilmington. Francisca's parents sent her and her siblings into hiding after Nazis . . . — — Map (db m260272) HM
Ger and Gerard van Raan of Holland protected 8-year-old Rudolf Klijnkramer and several months later, opened their home to 8-month-off Rudolf Liebknecht, during the Nazi occupation. The baby was called "Peter" to distinguish him from the older . . . — — Map (db m260308) HM
Juzef Tunkewicz, a Russian farmer saved the lives of at least 10 Jews and did so without seeking payment. In his farmhouse, he gave refuge to Jews from the village of Kobylnik (renamed Narach), near Vilna, in what is now Belarus. He brought . . . — — Map (db m260273) HM
King Christian Of Denmark, The Danish Church, And The Danish People smuggled almost the entire Danish Jewish population of 8,000 to safety in neutral Sweden during the October 1943 Jewish holidays. The Danish prime minister received word from a . . . — — Map (db m260303) HM
Leopold Socha and Stefan Wroblewski, of Lvov, Poland, were part of a three-man sewer team, working in the city's sewer system. A deeply religious catholic, Socha made a deal with a Jew named Ignacy Chigier to hide a small group of Jews, . . . — — Map (db m260311) HM
Louis And Odille Ceulemans-Gryson; of Brussels, Belgium, saved Wilmington resident Betti Blaugrund Shain. As the Nazis began founding up the Jews of Brussels in August of 1942, the Ceulemans-Grysons took in one-month old Betti. The couple kept . . . — — Map (db m260310) HM
Maria Nickel, of Berlin, Germany, was a deeply religious woman who managed to save the lives of Ruth and Walter Abraham and their child. In 1942, Ruth Abraham, who was eight months pregnant, was working as a forced laborer in a Berlin factory . . . — — Map (db m260269) HM
Mr. Krivienko, a Polish farmer, and his wife were responsible for saving the life of Minna Kassow Kraut of Philadelphia. Her daughter, Sandy Harad, resides in Wilmington. Mrs. Kraut was in her 30s when she escaped from a Nazi camp in Lithuania, . . . — — Map (db m260271) HM
Noλl Barrot, a pharmacist from the Haute-Loire region of France, saved Dover, Delaware resident Blanka Falek and her son, George. When she met Barrot in 1943, the young woman and her four-year-old son had already spent a year moving throughout . . . — — Map (db m260306) HM
Nora And Lois Loeffler, of Vienna, Austria, saved Erich Glenn, a Wilmington resident who died in 1972. Glenn had been in a hospital during the German takeover of Austria. Afraid to return home after his release, he wandered the streets of . . . — — Map (db m260300) HM
Piprot d'Alleaume, of Marseilles, France, saved Lore Bermann Beitman, of Wilmington. A devout Catholic and Dominican priest, Father d'Alleaume opened a hotel school in Marseilles, employing about 15 Jewish girls as well as non-Jews. Working at . . . — — Map (db m260304) HM
Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat, is credited with saving about 100,000 Hungarian Jews, including Vera Lorant of Wilmington. Employed by the Swedish Embassy set up by Wallenberg, Vera twice was saved from death by his personal intervention. . . . — — Map (db m260307) HM
This Garden of the Righteous Gentiles was the first of its kind in North America to honor Christians who saved the lives of Jewish men, women, and children, during the Holocaust. Christians honored here are among the many heroes of human history. . . . — — Map (db m260262) HM
Many Jews were able to survive the Holocaust because of the actions of Unknown Righteous Gentiles. Most Righteous Gentiles remained anonymous for reasons of self-preservation: If they had been found out, the Nazis would have killed them and . . . — — Map (db m260275) 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
No one can forget the terrible tragedy of the Shoah. We wish to remember and to ensure that never again will evil prevail. I fervently pray that our sorrow for the tragedy which will lead to a new relationship between Christians and Jews. . . . — — Map (db m252444) HM 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
11th Wing Annual Observance
Days of Remembrance
For the dead and the living we must bear witness
Dedicated to victims of the Holocaust — — Map (db m258775) 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
We pause in terror before the human deed.
The cloud of annihilation,
the concentrations for death,
the cruelly casual way of each to each.
But in the stillness of this hour
we find our way
from darkness into light. . . . — — Map (db m291962) 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
Dedicated to our parents, brethren and kinsmen who perished as martyrs under Nazi tyranny in the ghetto of Chenstochow, Poland-and around during the years 1939-1945 by the Chenstochower Society of Chicago
May the memory of our beloved ones linger . . . — — Map (db m259281) HM WM
This fountain serves as an enduring tribute to the precious few who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Known as "Righteous Among the Nations," these valiant rescuers are
remembered here for their extraordinary courage.
Given . . . — — Map (db m295027) HM
Hershel H. Herrendorf and Joshua Herrendorf
In honor of our parents Samuel and Pola Herrendorf, uncles and aunts: Shalom and Tova Winiarz & Irving and Dora Winiarz, and 118 other family members who perished in the Holocaust. — — Map (db m295031) HM
[Plaque in front of the statue:]
This monument has been erected as a lasting memorial to all victims of Nazism and will remain in perpetuity as a reminder what hate can do to mankind, if decent people are not vigilant to forestall such a calamity . . . — — Map (db m243019) HM WM
Janine Oberrotman and sons Alain, Mark and Dan
In memory of Joseph Oberrotman, and of family who perished in the holocaust: Oberrotman, Binder, Przepiorka, Handzel, Herzel, Lorber, Sobel, Feder, Kupfer — — Map (db m295032) HM
Peace garden dedicated by:
The Harvey L. Miller Family Foundation
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Jessica & Steve Sarowitz
Myrna & Sy Sarowitz
In loving memory of Schmuel Yitzruk Scharjowicz and his 19 family members who perished in the . . . — — Map (db m295024) HM
Peace garden dedicated by:
The Harvey L. Miller Family Foundation
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Jessica & Steve Sarowitz
Myrna & Sy Sarowitz
In loving memory of Schmuel Yitzruk Scharjowicz and his 19 family members who perished in the . . . — — Map (db m295026) HM
This fountain serves as an enduring tribute to the precious few who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Known as "Righteous Among the Nations," these valiant rescuers are
remembered here for their extraordinary courage.
Given . . . — — Map (db m295029) HM
Background Twenty years after the "the war to end war," World War I, a far more brutal, destructive, and deadlier conflict broke outWorld War II. Fought from 1939 to 1945, the Second World War included almost every nation in the world, . . . — — 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
Between 1933 and 1945, the German Nazi regime and their collaborators systematically persecuted and exterminated six million European Jews: men, women, and 1½ million children. The majority of the Jewish deaths occurred in Nazi death camps such as . . . — — Map (db m296802) HM
An artistic visual prayer in memory of the six million Jews of Europe, and these millions of other victims, who were tortured and murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators from 1933-1945.
The artist, Yaacov Agam, an Israeli, is the pioneer . . . — — Map (db m296800) 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
In 1941 ten thousand Jews from Bobruysk (Belarus) were taken from the overcrowded ghetto in which they had been forced to live and were murdered by the Nazis in the woods of Kaminka. The bodies were burned in long trenches, dug by 1,000 military . . . — — Map (db m256849) 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. OConnor . . . — — 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
The Anne Frank Tree
dedicated on June 12, 2017
by the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect
with gratitude to
the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
This tree is a pure descendant of the chestnut tree, preserved over decades, . . . — — Map (db m104536) HM
From 1944 – 1946 Fort Ontario served as a haven for 982 survivors of the European holocaust. Erected October 25, 1981 by Syracuse Pioneer Women/NAAMAT and the Jewish community of central New York — — Map (db m75980) HM
Children are the innocent victims of adult hatred, ignorance, and bigotry. During the Holocaust, 1939-1945, 1.5 million Jewish children were murdered. No child should ever be a victim again.
"How can a person not be moved by . . . — — Map (db m299455) WM
Children are the innocent victims of adult hatred, ignorance, and bigotry. During the Holocaust, 1939-1945, 1.5 million Jewish children were murdered. No child should ever be a victim again.
"How can a person not be moved by . . . — — Map (db m299453) WM
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
Children are the innocent victims of adult hatred, ignorance, and bigotry. During the Holocaust, 1939-1945, 1.5 million Jewish children were murdered.
No child should ever be a victim again.
"How can a person not be moved by . . . — — Map (db m279149) WM
To the six million Jewish
martyrs brutally
tortured and killed by
the Nazis 1939 - 1945.
May our God remember
them with all the
righteous of the world.
May their souls be bound
up in the bond
of eternal life. . . . — — Map (db m302151) WM
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 our loved ones among the 6,000,000 Jews who were slaughtered by Nazi brutality. May they be bound up in the bonds of the living. May they endure in everlasting rememberance.
"The soul of man is the flame of the lord"
Families . . . — — Map (db m256341) 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 resistancefists clutching daggersas 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
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