[3] The memorial was built in 1983, funded by the Board of Deputies of British Jews under the impetus of then-President Greville Janner, a Labour Party MP.

The then-shadow Environment Secretary Gerald Kaufman, whose grandmother was murdered by the Nazis in Poland, also stated that "the memorial was essential because the German responsibility was partly shared by other countries.

"[4] The memorial consists of two boulders lying within a gravel bed, surrounded by a copse of silver birch trees.

Streams of tears flow from my eyes because of the destruction of my people"[1] which is a quotation from the Book of Lamentations.

[4] In April 2024, London police covered the memorial out of fear that pro-Palestinian activists might vandalize it.