"The Children’s Memorial is interpreted through Anne Frank. The messaging is direct. Anne Frank was a 15-year-old girl who was murdered in the Holocaust. Her fame and significance emerged after her death with the discovery of a diary she kept that was found by her father. He was the only family member to have survived after they were betrayed. They all hid, terrified in a Dutch Attic, as the Nazis and their vicious anti-Semitic supporters scoured for any sign of surviving Jews to be murdered....
The most important engraved stone affixed to the base is the message of the Memorial:
“Children (all children everywhere) are the ultimate victims of adult hatred, bigotry, and ignorance.”
Rebeca Permuth de Sabbach, Father Patrick Desbois, Jerry Klinger
"The Children’s Memorial is interpreted through Anne Frank. The messaging is direct. Anne Frank was a 15-year-old girl who was murdered in the Holocaust. Her fame and significance emerged after her death with the discovery of a diary she kept that was found by her father. He was the only family member to have survived after they were betrayed. They all hid, terrified in a Dutch Attic, as the Nazis and their vicious anti-Semitic supporters scoured for any sign of surviving Jews to be murdered....
The most important engraved stone affixed to the base is the message of the Memorial:
“Children (all children everywhere) are the ultimate victims of adult hatred, bigotry, and ignorance.”
