Jewish memorials
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Project • By Expolight • Memorials
Babyn Yar Synagogue, Holocaust Memorial Center
Babyn Yar is a place in Kyiv where about 70,000 Jews were shot during the Second World War. This is one of the deepest wounds, one of the most painful memories of the Holocaust, of an unprecedented attempt to exterminate an entire people physically. In 2021, a unique new synagogue and place of prayer opened here as part of the first modern Holocaust museum in Eastern Europe.
Ivan Avdeenko
The project is exciting and emotional. The construction is an allusion to the book, the siddur, and the Bible, which are read together by the parishioners of the synagogue during the service. Reading a book together opens up a world of wisdom, morality, and history. The synagogue has two forms: a folded book and an open book. Changes its appeara... More
News • News • 17 Nov 2021
Each of the 102,000 bricks that make up the Dutch Holocaust Memorial by Studio Libeskind represents an individual victim
Designed by Studio Daniel Libeskind, the Dutch Holocaust Memorial of Names commemorates the 102,000 Dutch victims (Jews, Roma, and Sinti) who perished during the Second World War. Located in Amsterdam’s Jewish Quarter and close to important Jewish cultural buildings including the Portuguese Synagogue and the Jewish Historical Museum, the design was realized in collaboration with local architects Rijnboutt who as executive architect fulfilled the role of coordinating this project.
Kees Hummel
A composition of a non-linear labyrinth of walls, the memorial is made up of 102,000 unique bricks with each brick representing an individual. Four steel Hebrew letters that denote ‘in Memoriam or ‘in remembrance of’... More