Results tagged “Jewish Community Center” from York Town Square

Members of the Jewish Community Center participate in the lighting of the first candle to recognize the beginning of Hanukkah in December 2006. "The Six Million" sculpture can be seen at rear. Background posts: Holocaust sculpture a York County must-see and Images capture hope for racial harmony.

Did you know? ...

- That before its move to Hollywood Drive, the Jewish Community Center met in the former YWCA building at 120 E. Market Street York.

- That building had a rooftop playground. ("You can tell you're a long-time member of the Jewish community if you thought the East Market Street rooftop playground area was the neatest place in town," Gordon Freireich, 2000.)

"The Six Million" memorial, in the background, welcomes visitors to York's Jewish Community Center.

A haunting, memorable visit on any Sunday afternoon drive (tour route) is to see "The Six Million" memorial at the Jewish Community Center.

Internationally recognized sculptor Don Briddell produced the 20-foot by 9-foot Holocaust memorial.

The sculpture, unveiled in May 1997, was molded in clay, cast in resin and then painted.

A brochure Six Million accompanying the sculpture is right on in saying the work portrays an endless sea of men, women and children as they step forward from the darkness of the past into the light of today's world.

Their faces seem real, taken from photographs of those who died in the Holocaust... .