Image: Holocaust-mem-san-francisco-c

Description: Holocaust Memorial in San Francisco Lincoln Park. The Holocaust, a memorial sculptural group, was designed by sculptor George Segal and installed in Lincoln Park, next to the Palace of the Legion of Honor, on November 8, 1984. The memorial consists of two Holocaust images depicted with Segal's characteristic Two images of the Holocaust are depicted with George Segal's characteristic white-painted figures. One is an image of a Holocaust survivor standing by a barbed-wire fence. He is dressed in tattered cloths and reaches up to the barbed wire with his proper right hand. Behind him is another image of the Holocaust, a pile of bodies of Holocaust victims. The sculpture rests on a concrete platform on a hill overlooking the ocean. A fence surrounds the sculpture, but the viewer can enter the sculpture and walk around the figures. Lincoln Park, covering about 100 acres of the northwestern corner of the San Francisco Peninsula, was dedicated to President Abraham Lincoln in 1909. The park is the Western Terminus of Lincoln Highway, which was conceived and mapped in 1913 as the first coast-to-coast road across America, traversing 14 states. It stands on land that was a cemetery during the late 1860s. After local enthusiasts laid out a three-hole golf course in 1902, the land was turned over to the parks commission in 1909 and the graves were relocated. The course was expanded to 14 holes by 1914 and to a full 18 by 1917. In 1923, the park was chosen as the site of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. (Text: Flickr)
Title: Holocaust-mem-san-francisco-c
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