Emanuel Tree - Emanuel Tree

A monument that commemorates a historical age, a perception that cannot be understood with common sense to this day.

The name of the work is Emanuel Memorial Tree, but it is also mentioned as the "Monument to the Hungarian Jewish Martyrs". Its creator is sculptor Imre Varga. The letters of the Holocaust martyrs are immortalized on the leaves of the tree. There are about thirty thousand leaves on the tree, almost all of which bear a name. "The Monument to the Hungarian Jewish Martyrs is located at the former birthplace of Tivadar Herzl, in the garden of the Dohány Street Synagogue, in the Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Park. The work is a gift from the Emanuel Foundation in honor of 600,000 Hungarian Jewish victims of the crisis in New York. created by the actor in memory of his father, Emanuel Schwartz, who emigrated from Matthew to New York (the name of the tree is thus symbolic in two senses, since the Hebrew male name means “God is with us.”) The founding document of the monument was signed by Canadian businessman Edgar Miles Bronfman, then President of the World Jewish Congress, Nobel Prize-winning writer Elie Wiesel and sculptor Imre Varga, the creator of the work. The names of the victims of the Holocaust were immortalized on the leaves of the chrome-steel sculpture that forms the willow tree for a certain amount, and the money received was used to renovate the Tobacco Synagogue. "(Source: Mazsihsz.hu)

It is a sculpture built in 1991, which represents a tree, a weeping willow, on which each leaf has the name of a Jewish Holocaust martyr written on it.

Very nice urban detail. Very delicate and in good taste. Touch of sensitivity and grace.