Holocaust Memorial - Ann Arbor, MI
N 42° 16.828 W 083° 44.249
17T E 274278 N 4684545
Memorial statue located just to the southeast of Rackham Auditorium on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Waymark Code: WM162PE
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 04/22/2022
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From the placard at the monument:
In memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
In memory of the millions more destroyed by prejudice
and hatred during World War II.
In memory of those righteous and courageous few who risked
their lives to save the victims of Nazism.
May this memorial inspire us to resist tyranny and inhumanity
wherever and whenever they threaten.
A GIFT OF
THE ANN ARBOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
MARCH 13, 1994
The bronze sculpture was created by Leonard Baskin in 1994 and "...Placed on the site of the first Jewish cemetery in Michigan (established 1848); named the Raoul Wallenberg Plaza in honor of the distinguished alumnus and humanitarian. This was the first such memorial placed at a public university in the United States. It is not clear if the figure is a man or a woman, which is what the artist Leonard Baskin intended. “It’s ambivalent. The figure is in some sort of misery, wrapped up entirely in himself.” Baskin said the fist “portrays deep and powerful anger,” the other arm is “far more felicitous, raised possibly in mercy, forgiveness, tenderness, gentleness, all of those qualities.” -
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL