We Remember, (sculpture).

We Remember, (sculpture).

Franzoni, Augustus J., architect.

Skolnick, George, contractor.

We Remember, (sculpture).

Holocaust Memorial, (sculpture).

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Cor-Ten steel on a stone and concrete base.

Sculpture: approx. 10 x 4 x 4 ft.; Base: approx. 3 ft. 6 in. x 3 ft. 2 in. x 32 ft.

(Bronze plaque, front, raised:) 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/(five Hebrew characters)

(Bronze plaque, front, west of center, raised lettering:) (eight lines of Hebrew characters) (Small bronze plaque at rear:) THE NEW HAVEN MEMORIAL/Tribute to the Six Million/Hon. Robert N. Giamo Hon. Frank Logue/Congressman - hon. Chairman Mayor - Chairman/New Haven Jewish Federation/Herbert D. Setlow Lew Lehrer - Chairman/President Holocaust Committee/Augustus Franzoni George Skolnick/Architect Contractor unsigned

A six-pointed concrete wall with yew trees forms the Star of David base. In the center, six T-shaped tapered pieces of steel rise upward. Three tiers of horizontal steel bands (1/2 inches wide by 3/8 inches thick) run in a zig-zag pattern between the upright steel pieces, with three applied X's on each section of the bands (simulating barbed wire.). At the top, the steel uprights bend inward in the shape of a shepherd'scrook.

History -- Europe -- Holocaust

History -- United States -- World War II

Abstract -- Geometric

Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- New Haven

Administered by Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven, 419 Whalley Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06511

Administered by City of New Haven, Department of Parks, Recreation, and Trees, 720 Edgewood Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06515

Located Edgewood Park, West Park Avenue & Whalley Avenue, opposite 275 West Park Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06511

Inscriptions on nearby plaques read: (First:) HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL /Place (Second:) IN MEMORY OF ALL/INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO PERISHED/ AT THE HANDS OF THE NAZIS (Third:) IN TRIBUTE TO ALL THE/RIGHTEOUS GENTILES/WHO RISKED THEIR LIVES/TO RESCUE JEWS/DURING THE HOLOCAUST. IAS files contain a copy of The New York Times, Oct. 31, 1977 describing the dedication of the memorial and a feature in the New Haven Register (New Haven, CT), Oct. 25, 1977, describing the monument, believed to be the first such memorial built under the direction of a city government. New Haven citizens provided funding.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1993.

Broadside, "A Guide to Public Art in New Haven," New Haven: City of New Haven, Department of Cultural Affairs, 1989.

The New York Times, Oct. 31, 1977.

New Haven Register (New Haven, CT), Oct. 25, 1977.

Office of Cultural Affairs, City of New Haven, 2007.

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