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Babi Yar Park: (Entrance Monoliths), (sculpture). Artist:  Nishita, Satoru, sculptor. Halprin and Associates, landscape architect. Title:  Babi Yar Park: (Entrance Monoliths), (sculpture). Other Titles:  (Entrance Monoliths), (sculpture). Dates:  Dedicated Oct. 1, 1983. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Black granite. Dimensions:  (Left monolith: approx. 10 x 11 x 4 ft.); (Right monolith: approx. 11 ft. 1 1/2 in. x 11 ft. x 4 ft.). Inscription:  (On left monolith, south face:) IN MEMORIAM/TO THE TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND VICTIMS/WHO DIED/BABI YAR, KIEV, UKRAINE, USSR/SEPTEMBER 29, 1941 - NOVEMBER 6, 1943/THE MAJORITY JEWS WITH UKRANIANS/AND OTHERS (Text in Yiddish which in translation reads: My God, remember; text in Ukrainian which in translation reads: Perpetual memory to all victims of terror) (On right monolith, south face:) Decades ago.../Still the aching sadness/Innocents.../People who loved/Forever silenced by Nazi terror./Sharing eternally.../The mystic number... six million/A holocaust for the Jews of Europe/A tragedy for all humanity/Remember... unsigned Description:  Located at the southern entrance to the park, these two monoliths are placed several feet apart. The south face and inner surfaces are flat and smooth; the other sides are left rough. There is a stylized oak leaf on the south face, near the bottom of both monoliths. Subject:  Ethnic -- Hebrew State of Being -- Death -- Execution History -- Europe -- Holocaust Allegory -- Place -- Ukraine Object -- Foliage -- Oak Abstract Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Colorado -- Denver Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City and County of Denver, Department of Parks & Recreation, 2300 15th Street, Suite 150, Denver, Colorado 80202 Located Babi Yar Park, Havana Street, Yale Avenue, Dayton Street, & Parker Road, Denver, Colorado Remarks:  One of several sculptures designed as part of Babi Yar Park (CO000072), a memorial to the 200,000 victims, mostly Jews, with Ukrainians and others, who died at Babi yar, Kiev (Ukraine, USSR), between 1914 and 1943. Other pieces include: Entrance Podium (CO000067); Bridge (CO000070); Stone Circle (CO000069); and a Grove of Remembrance (CO000072). For further reading see: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO), Oct. 3, 1983; and Denver Post (CO), Oct. 2, 1983. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Colorado, Denver survey, 1993. City and County of Denver, Mayor's Office of Art, Culture and Film, 1996. Illustration:  Image on file. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS CO000068   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CO000068 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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