Fairfax : Holocaust Memorial Begins

Sponsors of a Holocaust memorial to be built in Pan-Pacific Park said work would begin next week on construction of six 18-foot columns commemorating the 6 million Jews killed under Nazi rule.

The triangular black-granite columns will carry bronze bas-reliefs and inscriptions depicting the horrors of the era.

Flames atop each column will be lit every year on Yom HaShoah, the international day of Holocaust remembrance, which falls on Tuesday this year.

Championed for more than two decades by survivors’ groups, principally the American Congress of Jews from Poland and Survivors of Concentration Camps, headed by Honorary President Otto Schirn, the memorial was financed through a campaign chaired by Jona Goldrich, a Los Angeles real estate developer.