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Actions Displays	Stained glass memorial Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberM2011/018:001 TitleStained glass memorial DescriptionStained-glass memorial, in lead-lattice framework, made of stained-glass pieces of the Synagogue in Subotica, Yugoslavia (now Serbia). Holocaust survivors Helen and Shlomo Weinstein visited their home-town Subotica in 1983. In the shul, which had been vandalized and never restored, they picked up pieces of stained glass and when back in Sydney, had them made into a personal memorial for the Holocaust. The six yellow flames in the glass symbolises the six million who perished in the Holocaust. The synagogue was built in 1901-1902 in the Art Nouveau style by architects Jakab Dezso and Marcel Komor. Production date 1983 Subjectmemorials, vandalised buildings, synagogues, Holocaust, world that was Object namestained glass Materialglass Dimensions length: 310.00 mm width: 650.00 mm Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mrs Helen Weinstein

Object numberM2011/018:001

TitleStained glass memorial

DescriptionStained-glass memorial, in lead-lattice framework, made of stained-glass pieces of the Synagogue in Subotica, Yugoslavia (now Serbia). Holocaust survivors Helen and Shlomo Weinstein visited their home-town Subotica in 1983. In the shul, which had been vandalized and never restored, they picked up pieces of stained glass and when back in Sydney, had them made into a personal memorial for the Holocaust. The six yellow flames in the glass symbolises the six million who perished in the Holocaust. The synagogue was built in 1901-1902 in the Art Nouveau style by architects Jakab Dezso and Marcel Komor.

Production date 1983

Subjectmemorials, vandalised buildings, synagogues, Holocaust, world that was

Object namestained glass

Materialglass

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Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mrs Helen Weinstein

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