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The Martyrs Forest is comprised 6 000 000 trees - 4 500 000 Pine trees represent the adults who perished in the Holocaust - 1 500 000 Cypress trees account for the children who perished.
On top pf the Martyrs Forest there is Scroll of Fire an enormous monument from 1971 by the artist Nathan Rapoport. The Scroll of Fire is is the single largest memorial to the Holocaust in the world and it is an imposing work rich in detail and history – it tells the story of the rebirth of the Jewish nation from the Holocaust, Maapilim immigration, the Independence of Israel in 1948, up to the Six Day War in 1967.
The sculpture is made of bronze and is eight meters high. It is in the shape of two scrolls, a gesture to the Jewish nation being the "People of the Book". The right scroll describes the Holocaust and the left one describes the independence.
In the scroll describing the Holocaust, there are sculptured numerous persons also seen in Rapoports former sculptures. Among others there is Janusz Korczak and his orphans, previously seen on the presently ruined sculpture at Madison Avenue in New York, an ascending to the heavens in flames mother and child, and a member of the Warsaw Ghetto Fighters holding a grenade that can be seen on the Ghetto Fighters monuments in Jerusalem and Warsaw. This scroll ends with Holocaust survivors - Maapilim immigrating to Eretz Israel in Aliyah Bet and people from Israel helping them get off the boats.
In the left scroll there are the symbols of the wandering Jew that reached his homeland and a child holding a cluster of grapes, one of the Seven Species with which Eretz Israel was endowed. There is also the large Menorah, carried by a group of soldiers. The same seen can be seen on destroyed sculpture in New York. This menorah is symbolic of the menorah from the Arch of Titus in Rome, which commemorated Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt. Now, the Menorah is brought back to Israel.
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| Now ruined by the religious Jews the sculpture of Rapoport at Madison Avenue in New York. Some detaild from it can be seen in Scroll of Fire. |
My words are of stone and bronze
“My words are of stone and bronze – silent but everlasting,” said Nathan Rapoport, an outstanding creator of Holocaust memorials. But he was wrong! His Holocaust Memorial at Madison Avenue was just demolished and the fate of stones with words is unknown. Even the highest representatives of Par Avenue Synagogue had no slightest idea what happened to the stones* with "words": TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF THE MILLION JEWISH CHILDREN WHO PERISHED IN THE HOLOCAUST.
https://jimbaotoday.blogspot.com/2023/05/to-sacred-memory-of-million-jewish.html
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