Holocaust Memorial (Lieberman)
Holocaust Memorial is a public artwork by American artist Claire Lieberman located on the Jewish Museum Milwaukee lawn, which is near downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.The sculpture also has an inscription which reads "IN MEMORY OF THE SIX MILLION JEWISH MARTYRS WHO PERISHED IN THE HOLOCAUST AND IN RECOGNITION OF THE COURAGE AND SPIRIT OF THE SURVIVORS" "Visitors enter the enclosed Memorial through steel sheets that evoke the pages of a book.As one goes into the memorial, railroad ties recall the trains which transported Jews to concentration camps.A granite obelisk is at the center of the sculpture, to symbolize the chimneys used in crematoria.[5] She worked in New York City from 1985 until 1993, and then joined the faculty of the University of Chicago.