{"id":54748,"date":"2025-11-28T14:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54748\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:27:09","slug":"queens-to-get-first-major-holocaust-memorial-with-4m-pledge-in-final-days-of-adams-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54748\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens to get first major Holocaust memorial with $4M pledge in final days of Adams admin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The city will build a Holocaust<\/a> memorial garden at Queens Borough Hall to honor the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis before and during World War II.<\/p>\n

Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams and Queens Borough President Donovan Richards<\/a> agreed to kick in $4 million in capital funds combined, while the borough\u2019s state lawmakers said they will request another $2 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not enough to say \u2018never again\u2019 \u2014 we have to live it with our actions too,\u201d Adams said in a statement. \u201cBy preserving the stories of both victims and survivors, by creating a permanent space for remembrance and reflection, by promoting understanding and solidarity across generations, this memorial will live out the meaning of \u2018never again.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Queens Borough Hall is planning to build a Holocaust memorial garden. Handed to NY Post<\/p>\n

Mayor Eric Adams and Queens Borough President Donovan Richards agreed to kick in $4 million in capital funds. Stephen Yang for the NY Post<\/p>\n

The garden is being built to honor the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis before and during World War II. Handed to NY Post<\/p>\n

The project will likely be completed during Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani\u2019s term in office, which begins next year.<\/p>\n

The Queens Jewish Community Council first proposed the Holocaust Memorial three years ago, and a dedication ceremony was held Tuesday at Queens Borough Hall with elected officials.<\/p>\n

When completed, the Queens Holocaust Memorial will be the first major memorial <\/a>dedicated to the horror in the borough.<\/p>\n

The borough president said he\u2019s thrilled that property at Queens Borough Hall will be home to the Holocaust Memorial.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Queens Holocaust Memorial will not only pay a touching tribute to the 6 million innocent Jews murdered by the Nazis and the survivors who settled in our borough afterward, but it will also serve as daily inspiration for our fight to forge a future free of anti-Semitism,\u201d Richards said.<\/p>\n

The city is home to more Holocaust survivors<\/a> than anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n

State Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Queens) vowed to allocate $1 million in state capital funding to support the project, and Assemblyman Sam Berger (D-Queens) said he would request additional legislative funding.<\/p>\n

The project will likely be completed during Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani\u2019s term in office. Handed to NY Post<\/p>\n

The city is home to more Holocaust survivors than anywhere in the world. Handed to NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cMany Holocaust survivors, my grandparents among them, came to Forest Hills seeking safety, dignity, and a chance to start again. They didn\u2019t just rebuild their own lives. They helped build Queens,\u201d Berger said.<\/p>\n

The city will advance a formal design process to build a commemorative garden and public artwork. The artist selection process will be led by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs\u2019 \u201cPercent for Art\u201d program in consultation with artists, historians, and Holocaust survivors.<\/p>\n

Architecture firm Rafael Vi\u00f1oly Architects has already drawn up conceptual images of what the memorial would look like for the Queens Jewish Community Council. It features two cylindrical rings, including one with a small reflection pool surrounded by grass and trees near the eastern entrance of Borough Hall across from the courthouse.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Holocaust Memorial Garden we begin to build today, is a reminder of what can happen if we forget the past. It will also serve to keep our focus on the present, while we hope for our future,\u201d said Michael Nussbaum, chairman of Holocaust Memorial Garden and former head of the Queens JCC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Memorial Garden will be a place where anyone can come to reflect and seek peace,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city will build a Holocaust memorial garden at Queens Borough Hall to honor the 6 million Jews…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[30011,81,15400,16523,57,9,24,63,87,122,124,123,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-54748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-borough-hall","9":"tag-eric-adams","10":"tag-holocaust","11":"tag-memorial","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-queens","18":"tag-queens-headlines","19":"tag-queens-news","20":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}