Holocaust Memorial

I wouldn’t recommend going out of your way just for this, because everything you see in the pictures that others posted is all that is there. However, as an addition to your trip to the Legion of Honor, you should definitely take an extra 5 – 10 minutes to check out this memorial. It’s very well done and powerful.

Eerie, haunting, strong.
George Segal’s Holocaust Memorial will make you stop breathing for a little while.
Set in a surreal place, this artist’ visual statement is something you won’t forget.
Small but powerful. Thank you San Francisco to keep the remembrance of this horrifying genocide alive.

This seems like an utterly inappropriate and completely far-​removed place to put a memorial to the Holocaust. Angel Island can be seen from a distance, and you put a monument to something that happened thousands of miles away?

4 plaques that commemorate those affected by/​lost to the Holocaust. The statue of the man holding the barbed wire fence was all that I could see from the road that I was standing on as I wasn’t there to check out the memorial, but to hike Lands End trail. Once I got to the top, I could see the statued pile of bodies behind the man. I’m glad that I saw this, because it was a beautiful memorial and from here we ended up at Legion of Honor museum. What a sad scene that captures the appalling treatment of others in our humanity’s history.

A very small memorial off the side near Legion of Honor. With one glimpse at the haunting scene, your heart stops. It pretty much sums up everything that needs to be said of the tragedy. A definite must see if in the area.

George Segal’s portrayal of the Holocaust is haunting. Located just in front of the Legion of Honor next to the small parking lot, the memorial is small. It overlooks the Pacific Ocean’s entrance to the Golden Gate Bridge. A great history lesson when bringing your kids to visit without boring them.
The sculpted figures of a man behind the barb wires with corpse laying behind him will give a lasting image. Pictures simply don’t do it justice. As hard as it is to describe, while reading the plaques of the history of the 6 million killed by the cruel Nazis and looking at the figures, there was a heavy weight and connection to the souls. You’ll walk out of this visit with a greater compassion towards humanity.
I know there isn’t much to look at. But every time I visit Legion of Honor I always pay a visit to this memorial and get the same compassionate effect afterwards. It is also free!

Its a small memorial who’s graphic scene is incredibly emotionally powerful. If you view the memorial from different angles, you see different perspectives. Located diagonal front of the Legion of Honor, its a stand-​alone piece. Of all the Holocaust memorials and museums I have seen, this one piece sums up the tragedy and madness of the times emotionally with the observer.

In this lifetime, not many have experienced such anguish, such horrific terror. The mass killing of over 6 million Jews during WWII is embedded not only in our history, but also embedded in the memories and lives of the survivors, the families, and in the entire world.
Words cannot describe the pain, the turmoil, and the absolute inhumane regard for human life. Yet, here stands a memorial that embodies just that.
A time where hope was a faint glimmer in stark darkness. Where families were split, lovers separated, and children ripped away from their parents’ arms.
Artist, George Segal, portrays a striking sequence meant to evoke the true reality of the Holocaust.
After visiting this site, my heart could not deny such suffering and such fear.
With my own family being refugees from Vietnam and surviving a catastrophic relocation, a new beginning, I couldn’t help, but empathize and truly understand what the Jewish people have experienced.
There were 3 million men killed, 2 million women killed, and over 1 million children killed; not to mention the mass killing of the Romanian people and those with disabilities by the Nazis and of their hate crimes. Soviet prisoners of war, Soviet and Polish civilians as well as homosexuals had their lives taken purely by the Nazi régime. It has been recorded to date that some 10 to 11 million people were intentionally murdered on pure hatred.
It’s taken me a while to finally even produce a review because of the pain associated with this work of art, but I feel that it is important that we do not forget. Until we are fully aware of the past, we are doomed to repeat it. That’s just proven history.
This artistic sculpture is created in bronze and painted in white. Lifeless bodies are strewn across the ground and over each other with a single man standing at a barbwire fence peering out into the distance.
It’s so incredible how this piece of artwork can penetrate the heart and create compassion for those who experienced this tragic event.
It is definitely an eye opener and I truly recommend anyone with a heart and mindset for acceptance and love for mankind to visit this piece of art.
Humbling and pride dissolving, Segal truly captures how fragile and for granted life
can be taken.
Thank you, Segal, for reminding us.

Very nice, sums up the Holocaust. It reflects the tragedy of WWII. You will find it in front of the Legion of Honor Museum to the side of the parking lot. White statues of humans.

I never even knew this place existed until today.
The memorial site is small, but it’s powerful enough to leave you speechless. I can’t really say much about it because I don’t feel like you can get the experience of being there from just these reviews and the photos. It’s definitely a place you should just drive to and maybe spend a couple of moments in silence to remember those who perished in the Holocaust.
Parking is easy to get so don’t let that stop you from coming here.

Parking: Right next to Legion of honor. To the right if you are facing the Legion
Strange that I am giving 5 stars to a horrible scene in human history but it is a very traumatic and powerful image. I came here without knowing this even existed and thought the memorial was a list of names or something. Walking from the parking lot toward the memorial, I wasn’t able to see the statues at all until I was standing at the ledge and looked down. Piles of dead bodies statues lying there freaked me out. Definitely very haunting looking at the exhibit from the back. This exhibit imprints a powerful image of the holocaust.

It’s been years since I’ve been to this memorial, and the second time I visited it, it was as powerful and moving as my first visit over a decade ago. Let’s just say that when you walk up to it from the overlook, the memorial completely catches you off guard and will send shivers down your spine.
Striking and haunting. Take a moment to sit and absorb. I had to reach out and touch the hand of the standing man.

After going to the Legion of Honor museum, my GF and I decided to stop by the Holocaust Memorial site. It’s a small piece that simply touches the heart (As lame as that sounds lol). It reminds us of how life although magnificent and beautiful, can also be cruel and tragic. The sculpture shows us a small glimpse of the tragedies that took place yet it also shows us a spark of hope. The lone man staring outside his walls, staring at hope. A hope that can lift our spirits and help us get pass even the toughest moments life has to offer.
If you’re ever at the Legion of Honor museum or maybe even nearby, you should definitely stop by and visit the Holocaust Memorial site, it’s simply a work of art.

A beautiful, moving memorial to the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.

This memorial is pretty moving. If you’re hiking in this area, or visiting the legion of honor, it only takes a few minutes to check out. Do it.

I first heard about this memorial on the news. It was not a good news report, another defacing incident of this memorial. I am not Jewish and hearing this news report made me so angry. WTH?!
I met the memorial face to face last year and wondered why it took me so long. I had the same initial reaction 4000 years ago when The Parental Unit took us two young sprogs on a European holiday. We went to many places where the atrocities took place in West Germany. I remember it took my breath away; it was not in a good way. And that 1.5 children were amongst the innocent victims. (We were in Germany when it was still East and West at the time.) I was ten years old, and I was shocked that children my age as well as my younger sibling’s age were murdered for senseless reasons. All that potential knowledge and brain power lost forever. Makes me wonder what the world would have been like; hopefully, a peaceful one.
I was brought to tears the first time. I said a prayer holding the hand of the man at the barbed wire fence and praying that something so cruel, inhumane, and atrocious never happen again.
When I visit the Holocaust Memorial, I still have the same reaction as the sprog I was 4000 years ago. Feels rather awkward to be the duchess of the Holocaust Memorial by George Segal as of this writing.
L’Chaim! Shalom.

Jaw-​dropping, tears-​streaming-​down-​my-​face amazing.
I had no idea what to expect and I was SHOCKED by what I saw. I highly suggest you NOT look at photos of this exhibit. Just show up, turn the corner, and let it take your breath away.
HAUNTING tribute that will help you feel something that is so overwhelmingly huge that it almost can’t be felt by my generation. Extremely profound piece of art which pays incredible respect to the souls that were lost and what they endured.
Go here.
P. S. I have no idea why some asshole just rated this review as «Funny».

This free memorial of an artist’s (George Segal) expression of the Holocaust is silent, stark, simple, surreal, and sobering.
Belying the beautiful surroundings of pine trees towering above, overlooking the magnificent entrance to San Francisco Bay, this powerful work is a reminder of man’s inhumanity to his fellow man.

Powerful.
And very, very sad.

George Segal, an important figure in the Pop Art movement (think Lichtenstein and Warhol) created this memorial which overlooks the SF Bay at Land’s End. It’s just northeast of the Legion of Honor, and free to the public.
I was first exposed to this sculpture as a freshman, via power point presentation in an art history class. The slide didn’t really engage me, and I’m not a Holocaust nut like some, but at the time, new to the city, I was excited to learn that a famous work of art was literally a bus ride away.
I didn’t find the memorial very compelling from a distance. However, walking among the wretched figures on the ground is to invite a swell of emotion; one that comes crashing to a climax upon joining the lone standing figure and gazing through the barbed wire fence at the Golden Gate and it’s unattainable freedom.
Come here by yourself and take your time. It’s worth it. Segal was a master.