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| One of 13 finalists. See Gallery page. |
The open international design competition is now closed. 715 submissions were received, one-third from outside the
USA! 13 Finalists were chosen by an elite jury of architects, memorialists, and holocaust scholars. In stage
two of the competition, the entrants each submitted a scale model of their concept. These models are currently on exhibition
at the Margate City Library. The public is invited to come and see
these amazing works in progress, and to vote for their favorites. A final selection will be made on Tuesday, September
28th, 2010, following a convocation on site by all the jurors.
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The Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial oganization (ACBHM,
Inc.) is sponsoring an open, two-stage competition to choose a design for a Memorial to the Holocaust. The Memorial
will be located at a prominent public site, an existing seaside pavilion on the world famous Atlantic City Boardwalk, against
the magnificent backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean. Each year approximately 35 million visitors walk on the Boardwalk and at least
10 million pass directly by our site.
The Memorial is intended to commemorate the
Holocaust in a way that is universal and enduring. It is envisioned to be a compelling visual statement at a significant public
place, not a museum. To explain or depict the Holocaust is not our primary goal. Rather, we seek in this Memorial to inspire
a vivid and continuing awareness of the terrible loss to humanity, history and culture which the Holocaust represents. Its
purpose is to fix our collective memory, to bear witness, to embrace the ineffable sense of loss. The committee sees in this location an unprecedented
opportunity to reach out and touch the generally impassive and silent majority, to inspire awareness among both Jewish and
non-Jewish society, and to encourage deep reflection on the consequences of denying fundamental rights, human hope, and common
humanity to any group or individual, particularly so when mass silence and indifference allows this to happen. The Memorial
must speak to visitors of diverse races and origins, and find a means for dealing with the unspeakable, and some would say
the unknowable, nature of the Holocaust. "If done effectively, the Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial could become one of the most
important vehicles in the world for transmitting a universal legacy message of 'common humanity' and 'never again' to unprecedented
multitudes for generations to come." Shaya ben Yehudah, Director, Yad VaShem, Holocaust
Center, Jerusalem, Israel MISSION
STATEMENT
TO REMEMBER the suffering is to recognize the Danger
and Evil that are present whenever one group wantonly and unjustifiably persecutes another. The Holocaust was the ultimate
act of malignant and lethal
Bigotry. The memory of the Holocaust is the legacy and responsibility of all Humanity. Our overall objectives in building
this Memorial are to witness History and reaffirm the basic Human Rights of our common Humanity. Those who survived the Shoah
require no aids for their indelible Memories. It is those of us who were not there that Demand such a Memorial, and our Descendants
will depend on it even more than We.
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The city of Atlantic City, New Jersey, has conveyed the above site to the ACBHM, Inc., a private non-profit
foundation chartered for the purpose of building the Memorial. The competition site is located on the ocean side of the boardwalk
at the terminus of Kentucky Avenue. Approximately 10 million visitors walk past this site annually.
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| Dedication Ceremony |
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| Cyla Kowenski, survivor and Board member |
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Competitors: Read carefully entire website,
especially all Design Competition, Registration, Site Plan, and Schedule pages. Queries may be directed to competition@acbhm.org.
Please get in touch to offer comments
or make a contribution. Email team@acbhm.org
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