Holocaust Memorial - Memorial Grove - Cherry Hill, NJ - World War II Memorials / Monuments on Waymarking.com

This memorial is located in Memorial Grove within Cooper River Park along the banks of Cooper River. It is managed by the Camden County Parks & Recreation Department. This impressive memorial is highlighted by a symbolically constructed eternal flame stretching toward the sky. The base of the memorial is a polygon of which each side has the name of a concentration camp inscribed within the marble stone.

This monument was conceived by the Cherry Hill Lodges of B'nai B'rith and realized through a total community effort. Within my community of Cherry Hill, I have met scores of Holocaust survivors including a very close friend, Aunt Rachel and a Masonic Lodge brother, Sid. We have a huge Jewish population as many of us moved here from the North East in the sixties to establish a new community. This memorial was born of that original migration across the Delaware River to Cherry Hill.

It was made in memory of the six million Jewish martyrs and the righteous of all nations who perished in the Nazi Holocaust. The actual dedication and explanation plaque reads:

"We consecrate this eternal Memorial Flame to the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis in Europe, 1933-1945, in the most tragic of times known as the Holocaust. Six million victims, including more than one million children, were martyred solely because they were Jews. We remember and shall not forget the genocide which the mind cannot grasp: The degradation, the starvation, the torture, the rape, the experimentation on human beings, the gas chambers, the crematoria, the mass executions. We remember and shall not forget the concentration camps – monuments to man’s capacity for evil – where Jews suffered and died. [Hebrew writing] We remember and shall not forget the heroic resistance of Jews in the cities, the ghettos, the forests and in the very death camps themselves; we remember and shall not forget the righteous of all faiths [Hebrew Writing] who risked their lives to save Jews. We remember and shall not forget the world’s silence and [word is missing] which led not only to the Holocaust but to the deaths of millions of other people. In a world of darkness let us create light; in a world of despair let us rekindle hope."

Please park your vehicle here: N 39° 55.720 W 075° 03.737

The coordinates are accurate up to .005 inches.

Date of Dedication: 01/01/1997 Property Permission: Public Access times: From: 7:00 AM To: 7:00 PM Website for Waymark: [Web Link] Location of waymark: Cooper River Park - Memorial Grove Park Blvd. Cherry Hill, NJ USA 08002 Commemoration: in memory of the six million Jewish martyrs and the righteous of all nations who perished in the Nazi Holocaust Access instructions: Not listed

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