Monument to the Victims of the Holocaust (Madrid)
Monument to the Victims of the Holocaust is a memorial in Madrid, Spain, honoring people who died in the Holocaust during World War II. It sits in the Three Cultures Garden in Juan Carlos I Park.
Completed and opened in March 2007, it was the first Holocaust memorial in Spain. The project followed a push for remembrance in 2004–2005, around the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen camp. In 2005 Madrid’s city council approved the memorial, funded by the Jewish Community of Madrid with 53,600 euros.
The monument was designed by sculptor Samuel Nahon Bengio, an Israeli of Sephardic Jewish descent, and architect Alberto Stisin. It is made of steel and wooden railroad ties and stands 10 meters tall. Forty-four columns of steel and ties form a Star of David around a raised platform. The ties are driven into the ground to look like tombstones. A wooden sculpture on one side shows a father holding his son.
A bronze plaque along the path commemorates the victims: the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, as well as Spanish, Roma, and other victims in the camps. The inscription is in Spanish and English and notes the dates April 15, 2007 – 27 Nisan 5767. The monument was inaugurated by Madrid Mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón on 12 March 2007.
In 2017, Oviedo became the second city in Spain with a Holocaust memorial.
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