Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, Holocaust remembrance monument in Miami Beach, United States.
The Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation is a memorial complex centred on The Sculpture of Love and Anguish, a 13-metre bronze arm rising from a round platform in a reflecting pool, its forearm modelled from about 100 human figures and marked with a prisoner number. A black granite wall behind it bears victims' names, and a colonnade of pink Jerusalem stone leads through the Dome of Contemplation into the narrowing Lonely Path, whose walls list the camps.
Holocaust survivors formed a committee in 1984 and established the non-profit Holocaust Memorial Committee in 1985. The City of Miami Beach Commission designated the Meridian Avenue and Dade Boulevard site, previously the home of survivors William and Florrie Loeb, who sold it to the city in the early 1970s. Designed by Kenneth Treister, the memorial opened on February 4, 1990, with Elie Wiesel as guest speaker.
The address, 1933–1945 Meridian Avenue, encodes the years of Nazi rule. The colonnade's black granite wall carries documentary photographs, including camp images and the Allied liberation, with captions by historian Helen N. Fagin and original quotations from the period. Three engraved tablets at the wall's end list events from Hitler's 1933 seizure of power to his death in 1945.
The memorial occupies the block at 1933–1945 Meridian Avenue, at the corner with Dade Boulevard, and the address itself refers to the years of Nazi rule. Visitors move through the site on foot: the entrance statue and colonnade lead into the narrowing tunnel, which opens onto the reflecting pool and the 13-metre bronze arm. The trees behind the memorial were planted by the property's earlier owners in the 1920s and 1930s.
The address, 1933–1945 Meridian Avenue, encodes the years of Nazi rule. The site was previously the home of Holocaust survivors William and Florrie Loeb, who fled Rotterdam; trees they planted in the 1920s and 1930s still stand behind the memorial.
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