Memorial to Victims of the Injustice of the Holocaust

The Memorial to the Victims of the Injustice of the Holocaust stands on the exterior of the Appellate Division Courthouse at Madison Avenue and twenty-fifth Street. It is a thirty-eight-foot tall marble sculpture that serves as a permanent, public reminder of the consequences of apathy toward injustice. Created by artist Harriet Feigenbaum and unveiled in 1990, the monument is uniquely integrated into the architecture of a functioning legal institution. The location was chosen specifically by judicial officials who believed that a courthouse, as a symbol of law and justice, was the most appropriate place to confront the memory of an event driven by the subversion of those very principles.