LI Herald: Garden Honors Young Victims, Survivors of the Holocaust

In the past couple of years, the Children’s Memorial Garden, which was dedicated in 2003 to the 1.5 million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust, has undergone a number of renovations, including the installation and etching of the stanchions.

Tours designed by the Children’s Memorial Garden Committee will lead groups through this dark chapter of history, reading the words of those like Anne Frank, who was 15 when she died, leaving behind her diaries, and Janusz Korczak, a Polish educator, children’s author and doctor who worked at an orphanage in Warsaw and was killed at the Treblinka extermination camp. Anne Frank, Menashe said, “wanted to live after her death,” Menashe said. “And she did.”

“The point of this garden tour, designed by Meryl and the garden committee, is to really highlight voices of the Holocaust,” said Helen Turner, the center’s director of education.