Holocaust Memorial Greenwood Cemetery

In Atlanta, Georgia, near the Jewish section of Greenwood Cemetery contains an impressive monument commemorating the 6,000,000 Jewish victims murdered in Europe between 1939 and 1945. On the walls of the memorial are several plaques that include the names of individual and groups of victims. Within the walls of the moment are 6 torches symbolizing the 6,000,000 people murdered. The monument was erected by Eternal Life-Hemshech. This organization was founded in1964 by Holocaust survivors who had settled in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Their goal was to build a monument in memory of their six million brothers murdered by the Nazis during World War II. Having no cemeteries to visit, the survivors also needed a place to mourn their personal losses and recite the Kaddish (the Jewish prayer of remembrance) for their loved ones who had perished in the Holocaust. Annually, the Yom-HaShoah (the Day to Commemorate the Shoah and Heroism) commemoration is held at the monument. When the monument was opened on April 25, 1965, an urn containing ashes from a Dachau mass grave was buried. The text on one of the Memorial stones reads: [i]HERE REST FOUR BARS OF SOAP THE LAST EARTHLY REMAINS OF JEWISH VICTIMS OF THE NAZI HOLOCAUST