Greater Harrisburg Holocaust Memorial Monument, (sculpture).

Greater Harrisburg Holocaust Memorial Monument, (sculpture).

Ascalon, David, 1945- , sculptor.

Greater Harrisburg Holocaust Memorial Monument, (sculpture).

Holocaust Memorial, (sculpture).

Dedicated July 17, 1994.

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Sculpture: stainless steel, Cor-Ten steel; Base: polished black granite; Wall: polished black granite; Paving: white Jerusalem stone.

Sculpture: approx. 15 x 3 x 3 ft.; Base: approx. 20 in. x 5 ft. x 5 ft.

(On sculpture, near bottom:) D ASCALON (On surrounding black granite wall:) REMEMBER (followed by the same text in Yiddish, French, Hebrew, German, Romanian, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Italian, Russian, Greek, Spanish, Dutch and Ladino) (The names of 13 Nazi death camps are etched along the top of the granite wall) (On wall:) DEDICATED BY THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF GREATER HARRISBURG/AND THE CITY OF HARRISBURG TO THE VICTIMS/OF THE HOLOCAUST PERPETRATED BY NAZI GERMANY/WE HOPE HUMANKIND WILL NEVER FORGET ITS LESSONS/CONCEIVED BY THOSE WHO SURVIVED/DEDICATED APRIL 10 1994.29 NISAN 5754

A memorial installation consisting of an abstract stainless steel column of linked fragmented pieces of steel. The column is wrapped in abstract barbed wire constructed of Cor-Ten steel. The sculpture stands in the center of a sunken area paved with white Jerusalem stone. The base of the sculpture is composed of six graduated layers of horizontally stacked black granite in the shape of the Star of David. The perimeter of the sunken area is outlined with a sloping polished black granite wall.

History -- Europe -- Holocaust

Abstract -- Geometric

Emblem -- Star of David

Ethnic -- Hebrew

Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg

Administered by City of Harrisburg, Parks and Recreation Department, 10 North Second Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101

Located Riverfront Park, 1300 Front Street at Verbeke, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Cost of the monument was $130,000. Funds were raised through private contributions. IAS files contain copies of related articles from The Patriot-News, May 14, 1994 and July 16, 1994; Simon J. Bronner's article "Inventing and Invoking Tradition in Holocaust Memorials," New Directions in Folklore (Oct. 2000); and a copy of the dedication program.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania survey, 1994.

Ascalon, Eric, 2003.

The Patriot-News, July 16, 1994.

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