The monument commemorates the persecution, deportation and murder of native Jews and those who fled to Luxembourg during the National Socialist dictatorship.
[2] The sculpture by the Franco-Israeli artist Shelomo Selinger is intended to be both monument and memorial to the same person and to remind the Jewish population of the inhumanity of the Nazis and to contribute to the fact that such crimes must never be repeated.
[2] Following the inauguration of the Schoah monument, a plaque in Luxembourgish and French was unveiled in the vestibule of the train station, commemorating the deportation trains during the Second World War:[1] “Erënner Dech beim Laanschtgoen drun, datt vun 1941 bis 1943 vun dëser Gare 658 jiddesch Männer, Fraen a Kanner an d'Nazi Ghettoen a Lager déportéiert goufen, wou si kalbliddeg ëmbruecht gi sin.“ The permanent presence of Jews in Luxembourg has been documented since 1276.
[4] From 16 October 1941 to 17 June 1943, 658 Jewish women, men and children were deported in seven transports[2] (see main article: The Holocaust in Luxembourg).
In 1969, on the initiative of the "Comité Auschwitz Luxembourg", a monument in honour of the Shoa victims was erected in Fünfbrunnen.
[7] The monument was inaugurated on 17 June 2018 in the presence of Grand Duke Henri and his wife Maria Teresa.