Memorial to Victims of the Injustice of the Holocaust

Presiding Justice Francis T. Murphy, and Clerk of the Court Harold J. Reynolds conceived the idea of creating a Holocaust memorial monument at the Appellate Division courthouse.

The justices believed a Holocaust memorial could symbolize these concerns, and a private committee of lawyers raised $200,000 in funding.

[2] Ms. Feigenbaum won the 1988 competition to design the memorial, with a proposal to feature a replica of an aerial photograph of the Auschwitz concentration camp taken by American planes as they bombed German oil factories nearby on August 25, 1944.

The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs describes it as "a six-sided half column rising 27 feet above its base.

[7] The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs website for the memorial indicates, "by the selection of this photograph, the artist is saying that the Allies must have known of the camp and they took no action.