NH Holocaust Memorial Dedicated at Rotary Common Park

The New Hampshire Holocaust Memorial was officially dedicated June 1 in Rotary Common Park.

The Memorial, a non-profit and the only Holocaust Memorial in the state, honors and commemorates those whose precious lives were lost in the Holocaust.

According to the NH Holocaust Memorial website:

"The memorial pays particular homage to those who perished in six primary extermination camps: 

Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek, Belzec and Chelmno. 

"These six death camps were intentionally and efficiently designed by the Nazis to exterminate the Jewish people of Europe, as well as homosexuals, gypsies, political dissidents and others. Eleven million innocent men, women and children were killed in Nazi forced labor and death camps during World War II. 

"This memorial is designed to encourage visitors to linger and ponder not just the gravity of the Holocaust but the genocides that continue today." 

Fred Teeboom, the benefactor of the Memorial, offers a poignant remembrance on the New Hampshire Holocaust Memorial website:

"I survived the Holocaust as a hidden child in Holland. My father, mother, brother and I lived. Our survival was nothing short of a miracle, because over a hundred members of our extended family were murdered in Auschwitz."

Speakers at the dedication ceremony June 1 included Rabbi Henry M. Morse, Mayor Donnalee Lozeau, and Pastor Paul R. Berube.