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Holocaust Memorial, Atlantic City
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Holocaust Memorial, Atlantic City
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“Our step beats out the message: we are here!”1
This concept represents the incredible acts of strength, survival, hope and friendship that rose from what was an unspeakably traumatic, confusing and devastating environment. It aims to depict cultural and individual courage through the use of light, form, material and scale, and show that the human spirit always has the capacity to rise above adversity.
Twenty height-varied vertical sculptural elements are placed on the site, suspended from the fragmented overhead structure. These represent the countries directly effected by the holocaust.
From the large central seating area, placed under the extruded towering eastern light, to the suspended prayer space that hovers at low level above the ground, and at the end of a descending ramp, sub spaces create private and communal areas for reflection.
Individual refelection and contemplation pods are then placed through-out the site in the form of smooth timber shoulder height tubes. Together these spaces form a memorial based on, and driven by human interaction and individual interpretation, so that “Every new generation will find its own siginificance in the past”2.
1 Zog Nit Keymol. Poem written in 1943 by Hirsh Glick.
2 Young, James E. At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture, Yale University Press, 2000
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