Area elected officials and community leaders last Tuesday announced a new Queens Holocaust Memorial at Borough Hall.<\/p>\n
Initially proposed by the Queens Jewish Community Council, the site will honor the memory of the 6 million Jewish people who were killed, as well as the survivors who built new lives here in the city. Upon completion, it will be the borough\u2019s first major Holocaust memorial, officials said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo matter how much time passes since the evils of the Holocaust, New York City\u2019s commitment to the pledge of \u2018Never Again\u2019 must never waver,\u201d Queens Borough President Donovan Richards said in a City Hall press release. \u201cThat is why, in the face of rising tides of heinous anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial across our society, I could not be prouder to lead this effort alongside the administration and the Queens\u2019 Jewish community in creating this critically important memorial here at Queens Borough Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the release, the city and Richards\u2019 office have allocated $3 million toward the project\u2019s development. The Queens Jewish Community Council also will lead fundraising efforts to support the memorial\u2019s design and construction.<\/p>\n
The city will lead a formal design process to build a commemorative garden and install public artwork, with the artist selection process led by the city Department of Cultural Affairs\u2019 Percent for Art program. The site will be formally designated as a Holocaust memorial through a DCAS letter.<\/p>\n
The memorial also will host Holocaust remembrance ceremonies, community gatherings and educational programs for students.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrauma leaves its mark, but it does not have to define us,\u201d state Assemblyman Sam Berger (D-Flushing) said in the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Area elected officials and community leaders last Tuesday announced a new Queens Holocaust Memorial at Borough Hall. Initially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[30011,15400,9,24,63,122,124,28973,123],"class_list":["post-60955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-borough-hall","tag-holocaust","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-jewish-community-council","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60955","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=60955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}