In 1964, a Holocaust survivor named Nathan Rapoport created the statue Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs, the first public monument honoring the Holocaust in North America. The statue sat for decades at 16th and Arch, but in 2018, the monument was expanded to a full plaza called the Horowitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza, named after a Holocaust survivor (Wasserman) and a major donor (Horowitz). Some of the plaza’s features include six pillars commemorating the six million Jews who lost their lives during the Holocaust, train tracks from the Treblinka concentration camp, a tree grove representing how the forests protected the resistance to the Nazis, the Theresienstadt Tree, which symbolizes hope for future generations, and an Eternal Flame. The Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation supported the efforts to revamp the memorial, wanting to create a place for the public to learn.  See photos of the new memorial in the gallery below.

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