The Alberta Legislature in Edmonton has a number of interesting pieces of art and memorials on its grounds. A small but important one is the holocaust memorial which is found on the southeast corner of the property. The sculpture shows a cracked kiddush cup, with barbed wire around its base. It was created by Susan Owen Kagan.
It’s hard for me to fathom the hate that would want to exterminate 6 million lives simply because of their faith and ethnicity. One hopes that over the past 75 years we as a society have evolved beyond this, but I’m not sure we have.
There are a number of interesting inscriptions along its base, which were difficult to photograph given the glaring light, but I think you can read them if you enlarge the images below.
This one I thought the most moving:
“Let the Holocaust be a symbol before our eyes of such darkness as must never be repeated. Let our tattooed numbers be a sign upon our arms of such evil as must never happen again. Let us consecrate ourselves to bearing witness from generation to generation so that no one will ever forget.”
Zachor….. Remember
