As part of our tour of San Francisco last Saturday
we visited the Holocaust Memorial at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.
What a sobering but magnificently done work of symbolism.
The memorial was created by George Segal out of white painted bronze in 1984.
The single standing man is said to represent the Liberation of Buchenwald.
The 10 corpses are in a Star formation...very symbolic.
The corpses recall post-war photographs of the camps.
Looking out at Freedom
I reversed the positive and negative in the first photo.
I thought it was a fitting comment on the terrors of war and prejudice.
Black and white seemed the best treatment for the horror of the memorial.
Thanks for looking.
10 comments:
Oh my, very sobering. But also, so well done!!! It does not pull any punches, and that is appropriate.
What a powerful memorial!
It's a very sad Memorial! They look so real so human and you can feel the sorrow just looking at it. In the past month we've watched two movies about the Horrors during that time and they were absolutely horrific to watch
Very, very powerful. You have captured it so well, it pulls my heart strings. What a sad day in history. So many things to see in S.F. Thanks for the tour.
So heartbreaking!
These are very sobering photos.
Oh my goodness Sue. Not only sobering, but so realistic, you can feel torture of heart & soul.
What a powerful reminder of the results of evil. I didn't know San Francisco had a Holocaust Museum. We visited the one in D.C. the last time we were there.
Interesting that this memorial features representations of people. In Israel, there are very few statues of people, most memorials are purely symbolic and abstract rather than representational.
These images are really amazing and wow I didn't know this museum was there.
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