Tomb With A View: A Cemetery Podcast

Episode 20: How Long Must We Remember? The Memorial to the Six Million, the Importance and the Challenges of Memorializing the Holocaust


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This week marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. To mark this occasion we examine Atlanta's own early Holocaust memorial. The Memorial to the Six Million in Atlanta's Greenwood Cemetery is a remarkable piece of International style architecture, the brainchild of Holocaust survivor and AIA architect Benjamin Hirsch (1933-2018). This history of this monument, tucked away in an unassuming corner of Greenwood Cemetery is a fascinating one, including a controversial part of the memorial which raises important questions about how we memorialize tragedies which exist on a scale that is difficult to comprehend.

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Tomb With A View: A Cemetery PodcastBy Liz Clappin

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