New Orleans Holocaust Memorial

Israeli artist Yaacov Agam, known for kinetic art, made the memorial for a New Orleans committee of Jewish and non-Jewish residents, and it was dedicated in 2003 with the Goldring Family Foundation named on a dedication plaque. Its nine panels are each painted differently, and as viewers walk around it they combine into ten distinct images, each meant to express the resilience of the Jewish people and other victims of the Nazis. The riverfront site in Woldenberg Park, at Bienville Street and the River Walk, is used for Holocaust observances and Jewish community commemorations.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — steps away
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 0.3 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• The Cabildo — 0.4 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• Congo Square — 0.7 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.

More markers nearby

• Bienville Monument — steps away
• Natchez Steamboats — steps away
• Picayune Pier — steps away
• River Rhythms Mural — steps away