BY CHANDLER KIDD
Brooklyn remembers.
Survivors, Jewish leaders,
and community members
gathered to observe the 34th
anniversary of Kings County’s
only Holocaust memorial on
June 23.
The solemn gathering to
commemorate the 1985 opening
of Holocaust Memorial Park,
located on West End Avenue in
Manhattan Beach, also helped
further the monument’s
sacred mission — to preserve
the memory and share the
lessons learned from one of
history’s greatest tragedies,
according to the memorial’s
chief steward.
“There is a need for this
kind of commemoration
because, it serves as an
educational purpose, not just
for people who don’t know
anything about the Holocaust,
but also for those who do,” said
Barry Lituchy, vice president
of the Holocaust Memorial
committee. “Because the
best antidote for racism and
anti-Semitism and hatred
is understanding what that
kind of thinking leads too
and where it has led to in the
past.”
Holocaust Memorial Park,
located between Emmons
Avenue and Shore Boulevard,
serves Brooklyn as both green
space, tribute, and outdoor
museum, featuring a beacon
topped with an eternal light
and surrounded by granite
markers inscribed with
historical names, places, and
events related to the global
massacre, which claimed
around six million Jewish
lives.
This year’s anniversary
ceremony was accompanied
by the installation of a new
plaque honoring the family of a
man killed in Aushwitz, along
with discussions about the
murder of Jews in the Russian
Caucuses and Croatia during
World War II. One of the event’s
keynote speakers, Holocaust
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ALWAYS REMEMBER: The inscribed memorial headstones at the
Holocaust Memorial Park in Sheepshead Bay honor those who lost their
lives in the Holocaust. Rabbi Benzion Laskin (above) speaks during the
annual Holocaust Memorial Gathering. Steve Solomonson
A solemn anniversary
survivor Olga Lipschitz, spoke
about her family’s harrowing
journey aboard cattle cars to
Aushwitz, when famed Nazi
offi cer Adolf Eichman saved
their lives with a well-placed
$15,000 bribe.
“Creating the park was
the great achievement of the
holocaust memorial committee
and the committee’s main
job has been to maintain the
park and upholding it’s goal
of educating the public about
what the Holocaust was and
what happened,” Lituchy said.
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