Wagon monument
The Wagon Monument is a memorial to the Holocaust that stands at the Yad Vashem[1] Museum on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem.
Creation
The monument, designed by the architect Moshe Safdie, was built in 1995[2]. It was erected in memory of the Jews who were sent to the extermination camps. The monument consists of a train car and a railway track standing on a broken bridge. On the monument appears Dan Pagis’s poem "Written in pencil in the signed carriage".
"Here in this carload
I, Eve
with Abel my son
if you see my other son
Cain son of man
tell him that I"
The train car was originally used to transport livestock and during World War II, the car was used to transport Jews to the extermination camps. The carriage has been preserved since the end of the war and was donated to Yad Vashem by the Polish railway company.
The location of the monument makes it possible to view it even from a distance, including on the road going up to Jerusalem from Ein Karem.
A similar idea was used as the basis for the railway car monument in Wetzowstrasse in Berlin, commemorating the 63 shipments of Berlin Jews, mainly to Auschwitz[3]
References
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- ↑ https://www.yadvashem.org/blog/preserving-memories-for-posterity.html The Wagon Monument at Yad Vashem website
- ↑ https://michaelarch.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/img_8233.jpg Year Created
- ↑ https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3079524,00.html Berlin monument
