Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Garden
- District
- City Of Westminster
- Town
- Hyde Park
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945): The Holocaust
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 28 June 1983
Attended by: Patrick Jenkin, Envirionment Secretary
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
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Current location
Hyde Park
The Dell
Rotten Row
Hyde Park
City Of Westminster
Greater London
W2 2UH
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 27884 79981
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Garden with four large boulders, on the largest of which is carved a quotation from the biblical Book of Lamentations 3:48-51 in Hebrew and English. The boulders are set on gravel and surrounded by birch trees.
- Inscription
- HOLOCAUST/ MEMORIAL GARDEN/ (four lines in Hebrew)/ FOR THESE I WEEP/ STREAMS OF TEARS FLOW/ FROM MY EYES/ BECAUSE OF THE DESTRUCTION/ OF MY PEOPLE/ LAMENTATIONS
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945): The Holocaust
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945): The Holocaust
- Components
- Garden
Measurements: height 2100MM, width 2100MM
Materials: Stone
- Garden
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Other
Details: Board of British Jews - Reference
- www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/hyde-park/things-to-see-and-do/memorials,-fountains-and-statues/holocaust-memorial
- London Remembers: www.londonremembers.com/memorials/holocaust-memorial-hyde-park
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park_Holocaust_Memorial
- Book- BUILDINGS AND MONUMENTS IN THE ROYAL PARKS (1997) Pages 50-53
- www.6millionmemorials.co.uk/uk-holocaust-memorials/holocaust-memorial-garden
- Our Blog ukniwm.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/holocaust-memorial-day-27-january/
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