Category:San Francisco Lincoln Park Holocaust Memorial

Holocaust Memorial at California Palace of the Legion of Honor 

Holocaust memorial in San Francisco by George Segal  image   place name sign
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Instance of	sculpture memorial war memorial
Commemorates	The Holocaust Dutch resistance during World War II
Genre	public art
Location	San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, Pacific States Region
Street address	1233-1249 El Camino Del Mar, CA 9412, San Francisco, Verenigde Staten
Creator	George Segal
Inception	1984
Date of official opening	11 November 1984
37° 47′ 04″ N, 122° 30′ 03″ W
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The Holocaust, a memorial sculptural group in San Francisco Lincoln Park, close to Legion of Honor Museum, was designed by sculptor George Segal and installed in Lincoln Park, next to the Palace of the Legion of Honor, on November 8, 1984. The memorial consists of two Holocaust images depicted with Segal's characteristic

Two images of the Holocaust are depicted with George Segal's characteristic white-painted figures. One is an image of a Holocaust survivor standing by a barbed-wire fence. He is dressed in tattered cloths and reaches up to the barbed wire with his proper right hand.The model choosen for this figure is Martin Weyl an Israeli citizen,Director Emeritus of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.For Segal he not only represented a holocaust survivor (from Theresienstadt) but also the survival of the Jewish people through Israel and a survival of the Arts. Behind him is another image of the Holocaust, a pile of naked bodies of Holocaust victims. The sculpture rests on a concrete platform on a hill overlooking the ocean. A fence surrounds the sculpture, but the viewer can enter the sculpture and walk around the figures.

Lincoln Park, covering about 100 acres of the northwestern corner of the San Francisco Peninsula, was dedicated to President Abraham Lincoln in 1909. The park is the Western Terminus of Lincoln Highway, which was conceived and mapped in 1913 as the first coast-to-coast road across America, traversing 14 states. It stands on land that was a cemetery during the late 1860s. After local enthusiasts laid out a three-hole golf course in 1902, the land was turned over to the parks commission in 1909 and the graves were relocated. The course was expanded to 14 holes by 1914 and to a full 18 by 1917. In 1923, the park was chosen as the site of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.

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