Qualities Faced During The Holocaust

Qualities that are expressed in our memorial are the hardships and cruelty the Jews experienced during the Holocaust. The poster expresses these qualities by including words that express what Jews experienced during the Holocaust. These words are around the Star of David which represents the Jewish people. Inside the Star of David will be broken glass which represents “Kristallnacht” or the Night of Broken Glass. Outside the Star are positive words that represent what the Jews experienced after the Holocaust and envelopes that have positive messages on them. This poster is meant to look like the wall to a ghetto which is why there is broken glass sticking out and barbed wire at the top. This memorial in real life would look like a big grey concrete wall about 10 ft tall and 15 ft wide, and the Star of David will be engraved a gold color in the middle. …show more content…
The poster also contains paper bags, jewelry, and coins which represent what the Jews used to carry their limited belongings to the ghettos and the concentration camps. The negative words in the Star will be engraved in red and the positive words outside the Star will be engraved in white. The words are different colors to show that they are positive or negative words. The memorial will be placed in a park because the memorial looks like the wall to a ghetto and people can look at it, but not be able to go close or touch it because it has broken glass sticking out of it. One memorial that inspired our memorial is Peter Eisenman’s Holocaust Memorial because of its color. In the end, the memorial expresses the hardships and cruelty the Jews experienced before and during the