Memorial Restoration Project

Restoration of the Memorial to the Six Million is now complete, but we are still accepting donations to cover the cost of the restoration, maintenance, insurance and security.

For this important work, Hemshech hired Landmark Preservation, LLC, from Savannah, Georgia, who specialize in historic preservation.

The amazing “gift” to our city and state was designed, created, and entirely paid for by Holocaust Survivors living in the Atlanta area in 1964. These survivors wanted to memorialize their murdered family members and the six million Jewish people who had no grave sites. The Memorial is Georgia’s oldest reminder of the Holocaust and remains a centerpiece of Holocaust education and observances in Atlanta.

Although the restoration is complete, considerable additional funding is needed to maintain the Memorial. Your gift to Eternal Life-Hemshech will help continue to breathe new life into our 60-year-old Memorial.

The restoration included:

•New gas lines for the six tall white torches representing the Six Million murdered

•Replacing the torches’ original gas igniting system with an electric spark igniting system

•Cleaning and waxing bronze plaques within the Memorial

•Stone regrouting and repointing

•Landscape improvements surrounding the Memorial

This Memorial is a holy and special place for all of us to say Kaddish (Jewish memorial prayer) and to enable others in the future to observe Yom Hashoah each year. Your contribution to the Memorial will help achieve our Survivors’ dream: to teach future generations they must never forget the atrocities of the Holocaust so this terrible history will not be repeated.

The Memorial qualified for the National Register of Historic Places under special criteria, and was listed on the National Register for Historic Places on April 21, 2008.

Hemshech means “continuation” in Hebrew. Thank you for continuing our Holocaust Survivors’ legacy to Atlanta and Georgia by helping to restore and maintain this treasure for our children and their children’s children.