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Actions Displays	Holocaust Memorial San Francisco Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberM1991/018:009 TitleHolocaust Memorial San Francisco DescriptionColour photograph of outdoor section of the Holocaust Memorial at California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, in Lincoln Park, overlooking the Golden Gate. It was created by artist George Segal out of white painted bronze. In 1981 the city invited Segal to submit a design for its competition; his plaster maquette is held by the Jewish Museum in New York.The bronze cast was installed in 1984. Several of the bodies in the sculpture were designed to be symbolic. One of the bodies resembles Christ, another is of a woman holding an apple, evoking Eve. Both symbolise the connection between Jews and Christians. The only standing man, a survivor, is thought to be the sculptor's representation of Margaret Bourke-White's famous Life Magazine 1945 photograph of the liberation of Buchenwald. Segal's friends posed for the casts, so they are not emaciated like the corpses found at the liberation of Buchenwald. This was an intentional choice by the artist, as was the star formation of the corpses, which added order to the chaotic helter-skelter of the corpses in the liberated concentration camps. Source: Wikipedia SubjectHolocaust, monuments & memorials Object namephotographs Materialphotographic emulsion, paper, paper Techniquephotography Dimensions width: 170.00 mm height: 125.00 mm Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Dr Laszlo Adler

Object numberM1991/018:009

TitleHolocaust Memorial San Francisco

DescriptionColour photograph of outdoor section of the Holocaust Memorial at California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, in Lincoln Park, overlooking the Golden Gate. It was created by artist George Segal out of white painted bronze. In 1981 the city invited Segal to submit a design for its competition; his plaster maquette is held by the Jewish Museum in New York.The bronze cast was installed in 1984.

Several of the bodies in the sculpture were designed to be symbolic. One of the bodies resembles Christ, another is of a woman holding an apple, evoking Eve. Both symbolise the connection between Jews and Christians. The only standing man, a survivor, is thought to be the sculptor's representation of Margaret Bourke-White's famous Life Magazine 1945 photograph of the liberation of Buchenwald. Segal's friends posed for the casts, so they are not emaciated like the corpses found at the liberation of Buchenwald. This was an intentional choice by the artist, as was the star formation of the corpses, which added order to the chaotic helter-skelter of the corpses in the liberated concentration camps.

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SubjectHolocaust, monuments & memorials

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Materialphotographic emulsion, paper, paper

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Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Dr Laszlo Adler

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