Object Name:
Sculpture
Museum ID #:
2014.FIC.0359
Catalog Date:
01/05/2015
Collection:
Sparks Armory Collection
Description:
Shoah—Holocaust Sculpture; depicts the transportation of Jews in railroad boxcars to places of extermination, showing one armed SS Soldier on top of the train and a second with a dog and whip herding a naked man, woman, and child into the gas chambers; the upper portion symbolizes the crematorium's red hot chimney and flames; the six candles commemorate the 6 million Jews that died ruthlessly at the hands of their German tormentors
Event Associated with Item:
World War II
History of Item:
Given as a gift by Jack and Margot Goldman to the 157th Infantry Regiment—45th Division of the Colorado National Guard in appreciateion for its part in the Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camp, Dachau, Germany on April 29, 1945
Made:
United States
Place of Origin:
United States
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