Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach, Florida

Photo is courtesy of hjsyourcpa who wrote to me:

The Memorial, constructed on government owned land, was not permitted to have overt religious symbols. The designers included into the structure several items of Judaica. For example the spacing of the stones reveals the shape of a menorah. The entranceway to the focal point of the memorial is an ante way capped by a dome - similar to those found in Jerusalem. At the top of the dome is a yellow stained glass in the shape of a Magen David with the word Jude written across it. The Mid day Miami sun shining through this window is the effect, which you see in my picture. The hallway is approximately 50 meters in length and is lined with the names of the death camps.

Star of Jaffa

Hayim Shyater took this Star of David photo at Jaffa on March 2008. It is not clear what the creator of this mural meant.
Copyright: Hayim Shyater 2008

People, Jewish people and non-Jewish people

From: groundviews dot org
2007/12/17/

A political commentator who witnessed this new phenomenon on its first day of implementation has noted thus; “Yesterday I saw people on the streets. Today I see Jewish people and non-Jewish people.” This new arrangement caused so much of pain to Jews that most of them curtailing their outings consigned themselves to be indoors, a virtual voluntary house arrest. If it were necessary go out they carried something like a book so that they could hide the badge being shown, by way of holding the book over the badge. If caught not wearing the badge due to sheer reluctance in some cases or mere forgetting with many elders, one earned the wrath of the authorities resulting in being thrown into prison with no clemency. Therefore, the trauma instilled in the mind of the affected was such that people resorted to a habit of getting a hand written notice displayed on the interior side of their house doors as a precaution against probable absentmindedness. “Is the badge OK?” “Don’t forget the badge” “Where is your badge?’ are the common reminders.

The Deputy

From Wikipedia entry: The Deputy

The Deputy, a Christian tragedy (German: Der Stellvertreter. Ein christliches Trauerspiel), also known as The Representative, is a controversial 1963 drama by Rolf Hochhuth which indicts Pope Pius XII for his failure to take action or speak out against The Holocaust. It has been translated into more than twenty languages.

[In Act III, Father Riccardo Fontana, the priest protagonist] “first voices his idea to follow the example of Bernhard Lichtenberg and to follow the Jews to the death camps in the East, and possibly to share in their fate”. [In Act V] “he dons the yellow star and joins deportees to die at Auschwitz, where the rest of the act takes place”.

Bernhard Lichtenberg was a German Catholic priest who protested against the Nazis attitude towards Jews, and was considered by them as incorrigible - that’s why they sent him to the Dachau concentration camp.

German Postage Stamp

Christmas six-pointed star appears on a Germany-Berlin postage stamp issued in 1983. Courtesy of Ronik from Israeli Collect Forum

Stella Octangula Music Band

There's a band called Stella Octangula which uses on it's website many interesting three-dimensional Star of David images. They started playing in late 2006 and named  their band after Kepler's famous Stella Octangula, eight pointed 3D star.

Impossible Star of David-2

Photo is courtesy of Dan Feldman who wrote to me that the impossible triangle and the impossible Star of David interested his son Ariel of Blessed Memory.

He built a 3 dimensional model which could be seen from a certain angle as an impossible Star of David, made from two impossible triangles cut in the middle of the flanks. In addition, you can see the Star of David shape in the center of the structure.

Copyright: Dan Feldman © 2008