05/01/2008
Tel Aviv Mayor Announces Monument to Gay Victims of Holocaust
Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai announced that Meir Garden in Tel Aviv is to be the site of a monument honoring tens of thousands of gay victims of Nazi persecution during World War II, Ynet reports:
"A quarter of a million homosexuals were persecuted during the Holocaust, and tens of thousands were murdered because the Nazi Party believed their sexual preference to be deviant. In the concentration camps in which they were imprisoned, gay men were forced to wear a pink triangle while lesbian women wore a black patch. Plans for the monument's erection were initiated by Itai Pinkas, one of the homosexual community leaders and a member of the Tel Aviv Municipality City Council, who serves as the mayor's advisor in matters of the gay community. The monument is to be the first in Israel to commemorate these victims, though four of its kind exist worldwide, in Sydney, Copenhagen, Berlin, and Amsterdam. It has been designed as an iron triangle, on which the victims' names are to be inscribed."
Above is a sketch of the proposed monument.
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Beautifully designed. I'm very glad to see this happen, although I expect the usual controversies.
Thank you, Mayor Huldai!
Posted by: George in LA | May 1, 2008 11:55:56 AM
Is that a wishing well, or a triangular septic-tank? ...Fugly.
Posted by: Ted B. (Charging Rhino) | May 1, 2008 11:59:49 AM
Very cool
But I don't like the design. You basicaly are looking into a glorified pit, and seeing all the names from above would be difficult.
Something like the vietnam wall memorial but 3 sided with openings to walk down into and be able to look at all the names would be better
Posted by: jimmyboyo | May 1, 2008 1:16:23 PM
Does it remind anyone else of Duchamp's urinal? And if so, is that fitting, or not?
Posted by: christopher | May 1, 2008 5:34:19 PM
jimmyboyo,
i can't say that i dislike it. the details are pretty sketchy, he,he. i like the idea, though. i wish the link had more info about the conceptual process. you have a point about observers not being able to see the names. i agree that there should be an entrance to get down in there. i imagine it would be eerie reading the names while feeling you had been thrown into an abyss.
Posted by: nic | May 1, 2008 6:55:52 PM