A new memorial to the victims of the Holocaust has been established in Brno

Brno - A cube made of black granite, with water flowing over it, decorates the newly established Brno square on October 28. It is a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust and references the racial persecution of Jews and Romani by the Nazi Third Reich during World War II. The memorial was designed by academic painter Daniel Václavík.
    Václavík won the competition with his idea out of 51 proposals in an open competition announced by the city two years ago. The previous competition was canceled by the council because no proposal was approved. The city allocated 3.7 million crowns for the construction of the memorial.
    The cube has an edge length of 3.14 meters, which is the rounded infinite Ludolph's number. “It evokes through its infinite flow the continuously repeating human suffering throughout history,” Václavík explained. Water flows over the cube as a symbol of purification and forgiveness. It is set into a basin, which is also made of black granite. At the bottom of it is a textual part in Czech, Hebrew, and Romani versions, and there are also Jewish and Romani symbols.
    The memorial is meant to reflect the era of Hitler's Germany, whose ideology considered Jews and Romani as inferior races that needed to be eliminated. Millions of people perished in concentration camps during World War II.
    The creator of the memorial is, for example, a holder of the Interior of the Year 1995 award for the artistic design of the oncology lobby at the Motol Hospital in Prague. Since 2004, he has been working as a freelancer, mainly focusing on applied graphics.