Alexandria Holocaust Memorial

The memorial is an obelisk 18 feet high that weighs about 15 tons, and the height is deliberate: the Hebrew letters for 18 spell life. It honors the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, including one and a half million children, along with victims of other genocides and ethnic cleansing and the resisters and rescuers. A fund led by Rabbi Arnold Task announced it in 2012 as the state's second Holocaust memorial after New Orleans. It was completed in 2014, paid for by Jewish and non-Jewish donors, with extra money set aside for school education programs.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Arna Bontemps African American Museum — 0.4 mi
  The restored Alexandria house where the Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps was born in 1902, on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
• Forts Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site — 0.7 mi
  Two Confederate earthen forts on the Red River at Pineville, built with enslaved labor and never attacked, beside the remains of Bailey's Dam.
• Kent Plantation House — 2.1 mi
  Rapides Parish's oldest known standing building, a Creole house with a February tour and a 2023 memorial that put the enslaved first.
• Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum — 4.7 mi
  A National Guard museum in a replica WWII barracks at Camp Beauregard, built around the huge 1940-41 war games in Central Louisiana. Free.

More markers nearby

• St. Francis Xavier Cathedral Complex — steps away
• Alexandria's Oldest Hospital — steps away
• Emmanuel Baptist Church — steps away
• The Hotel Bentley — 0.2 mi