Historical landmark
Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach
Four-story bronze arm and hand rising from a reflecting pool, clung to by nearly a hundred figures of the Holocaust dead.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach opens with a local critic calling the design grotesque, and a survivor named David Schaecter asking what would satisfy him instead. You'll hear how Schaecter and other South Florida survivors decided in 1984 that the region needed a public memorial, and how they hired sculptor Kenneth Treister, who spent five years researching in Jerusalem and casting bronze in Mexico City. The guide follows the dark stone passage behind the sculpture to a wall of names, and to the 1990 dedication where Elie Wiesel spoke.
This audio guide was created using AI.