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L.A. Donates Landscape Design for Nashville Holocaust Memorial11-14-05 | News
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L.A. Donates Landscape Design for Nashville Holocaust Memorial

People gathered Oct. 16, at the Gordon Jewish Community Center in Nashville for the groundbreaking of the Nashville Holocaust Memorial. The land is donated by Gordon Jewish Community Center, the memorial design donated by Manuel Zeitlin and Associates and the landscape design donated by Paul Lebovitz, landscape architect.

The Nashville Holocaust Memorial is in a pastoral setting and will include a walkway with the names of the hometowns and countries where Nashville survivors and their families lived before the Holocaust began. Benches will offer a place of solitude and reflection. Memorial walls will be inscribed with the names of loved ones who did not survive and survivors who have passed away who have Nashville connections. The centerpiece is a sculpture by Alex Limor that was unveiled: a large bronze book with missing or tattered pages filled with silhouettes of nameless faces. Alex?EUR??,,????'???s father, Irvin Limor, was a Holocaust survivor who lived and worked in Nashville as a sculpture from 1957 until his death in 1995.

Of the $400,000 sought for the project, more than $300,000 has been raised.

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