Six Pillars

The Philadelphia Holocaust Memorial Plaza was renovated in 2018 to promote awareness of and dialogue about the bloodiest genocide of the twentieth century. Its six pillars memorialize the six million Jewish victims murdered by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. The pillar texts are presented in pairs, each pairing chronicling an atrocity of the Holocaust and contrasting it with American constitutional protections and values established in Philadelphia. Together, these paired texts proclaim that as long as the people of the United States remain faithful to the Constitution and tolerant of each other, a genocide like the Holocaust will not occur here. The texts are arranged in chronological order of Holocaust events, beginning with the pair titled "Human Equality" and "The Master Race."

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · United States