Narratives to help restore memorial
Two years ago, America’s first Holocaust memorial built on public land — located on the corner of Whalley and West Park avenues — was falling apart and nearly forgotten. After three decades of exposure to New England weather, the monument’s metal had begun to rust and peel, and the site’s cobblestone base, evocative of Old World shtetl streets, had filled with cracks. At the monument’s center, a metal cover protecting interred ashes from the Auschwitz concentration camp had worn and fallen off. Few New Haven residents remembered the monument; fewer visited it.
But for one Elm City...
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