Holocaust Monument

Local Holocaust survivors Robert Krell and David Shafran initiated the construction of a Holocaust monument in British Columbia. Architect Jack Lutsky, artist Naomi Spiers, and engineer Ralph Schwartzman worked on the project. The monument was unveiled on Yom HaShoah, April 26, 1987.

The names of murdered family members are engraved at the base of the monument. This has given the Jewish community a physical place to remember and mourn those who died in the Holocaust. The following dedication appears on the monument:

“Dedicated to the six million of our beloved people brutally murdered during the Nazi Holocaust, 1933–1945. They shall live in our hearts forever.”