It was a small but extremely effective educational resource, and after ten years at Hillel, Wright State University built what we now know as the Holocaust Resource Center and invited the Center to relocate there in 2001. So, seeing a need, a group went to Hillel in the early 1990s, and was offered space in their library which became the Dayton Holocaust Resource Center. Education up to this point had been entirely concentrated in survivor and educational visits, and a single newsletter the Committee participated in. With increasing interest in learning about the Holocaust, concerns cropped up about ensuring resources and information shared were accurate in a time without the internet, it was difficult to compare information to other sources for accuracy. The Dayton Holocaust Resource Center was established due to community need for in-depth resources and a concentration of expertise and knowledge on the Holocaust. Words of dedication, Hebrew and English, are cut into the marble. Emblazoned upon tapers are the Hebrew letters finished in gold leaf, proclaiming the message “zachor” (remember). They are standing amid barbed wire and fire, reaching through the language of memory towards six lighted tapers at the crown of the art. Above the names are bronze reliefs of a family holding each other. Read from the right they are Dachau, Auschwitz, Maidanek, Treblinka, Theresienstadt, and Bergen-Belsen. ![]() The names of six death and concentration camps appear in Hebrew. Six wood columns, three on each side, frame a large off-white marble slab which serves as a background for sections of heavy bronze castings. The memorial wall uses the motif of six, in memory of the six million Jewish martyrs who died in the Holocaust. It was moved to its current location at the Boonshoft CJCE. The memorial was designed and built by Kenneth Fixler of Cleveland, Ohio. The Holocaust Memorial was dedicated on Septemand was installed in the lobby of the Jesse Phillips Building within the Jewish Community Complex. ![]() The Holocaust Memorial Here in our Building
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