Sited on the south lawn of the Ohio Statehouse, the $2.1-million Ohio Holocaust and Liberators Memorial stands as a monument to the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. It also honors Ohio liberators who freed thousands from the death camps in the spring of 1945.
Visitors to the memorial first encounter a sloped pathway of red-gray granite flanked by stone benches and a graduated stone wall. A subtle line emerging from the path guides visitors to a pair of 18-ft-tall bronze forms positioned at 45 degree angles to one another, the line ascending to bisect a cut-out hexagram lined with stainless steel.