Stolpersteine, Germany

These ‘stumbling stones’ commemorate individuals who were victims of the Nazis. Each metal

cobble carries the person’s name, date of birth and information about what happened to them.

The stones are placed outside the address where the person used to live.

The first stone was laid in Cologne in 1992. There are now tens of thousands across Germany.

Treblinka, Poland

This memorial was created at the site of Treblinka extermination camp in the 1960s.

A central obelisk, which includes a menorah in the design, is surrounded by 17,000 stones. The

largest stones carry the names of towns whose Jewish communities were murdered at Treblinka.

One stone commemorates a named individual: Janusz Korczak, a Jewish doctor and orphanage

director from Warsaw, who was murdered at Treblinka with the children from his orphanage.

Babi Yar, Kiev

33,771 Jews were murdered in two days at Babi Yar, a ravine on the edge of Kiev, Ukraine, in

September 1941.

The memorial on the left was created by the Communists in 1976, after years of public pressure.

It makes no reference to who the victims were.

The memorial on the right was created in 1991 at the site of the massacre.

Oshpitzin app

The Oshpitzin app has been created by the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oświęcim, Poland.

Oświęcim had a majority Jewish population before the war. The app enables users to discover the

history of the town’s pre-war Jewish community through an interactive map.

The map links to historic photos and personal testimonies as well as factual information about

different sites in the town, which is better known by its German name – Auschwitz.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is the USA’s national memorial to the Holocaust.

It was created on the recommendation of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust which was

established by President Carter in 1978. The museum opened in 1993.

The large permanent exhibition includes historical artefacts, film footage and eyewitness

testimonies. The museum also runs educational programmes.

Sculpture of Love and Anguish, Miami

The Sculpture of Love and Anguish was commissioned by a

group of Holocaust survivors living in Florida.

The bronze hand is 42 feet high and inscribed with a

prisoner number tattoo.

160 emaciated human figures surround the hand.

Holograms of Holocaust survivors

The Shoah Foundation in Los Angeles has created 3D holograms of Holocaust survivors.

The holograms are to be used in schools when survivors are no longer able to deliver testimony in

person.

The Shoah Foundation is also asking survivors to record answers to questions. An algorithm is

being developed which will enable the holograms to answer questions from students.

Holocaust Memorial Garden, Hyde Park, London

The Holocaust Memorial Garden was opened in Hyde Park in 1983.

It contains boulders, the largest of which is inscribed with a quotation from the Book of

Lamentations.

It had originally been suggested that the memorial be placed outside Parliament or by the

Cenotaph in Whitehall but these ideas were rejected.

IWitness

IWitness is an educational platform created by the Shoah Foundation in Los Angeles.

It contains more than 1,300 of the Foundation’s archive of 52,000 video testimonies.

Teachers can use the site to create lesson plans whilst students can use the testimonies to create

their own videos.

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin

This memorial consists of 2,711 concrete blocks occupying 19,000 square metres.

It was created in 2003-04. The decision to create a large Holocaust memorial in central Berlin was

made by the German Parliament in the early 1990s but it took many years to agree on the design.

There is no information on the memorial. There is a museum underneath the memorial but it was

not in the original design: it was added at the insistence of the German Parliament.

Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands

This “internet monument” has been created by the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam.

Each of the tiny colour-coded bars represents an individual. They are grouped together by

families.

Clicking on a bar will reveal information about the individual and their family, including

photographs and documents where possible. Users are invited to add information.

Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

Israel’s national Holocaust museum and memorial was created in the 1950s.

The Hall of Names (top right) contains millions of Pages of Testimony for victims of the Holocaust.

The Valley of the Communities (bottom left) remembers Jewish communities which were

destroyed.

In the Children’s Memorial (bottom right), a voice reads the names of murdered children.