Ramp and the Railway Sculpture

Along the front edge of the memorial area running along the front wall of the site is a symbolic ramp. The ramp is a flat concrete surface, with the museum in the far right corner and an integrated sculptural and architectural composition.

Concrete pavement, cast iron border

To the left of the main entrance on the ramp is a railway track sculpture.

 

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The Railway Track Sculpture

The Railway Track Sculpture



The Railway Track Sculpture

The Railway Track Sculpture

The sculpture is made of railway tracks and slag which has been built into the surface of the ramp. It symbolises the siding where the trains with the deported victims arrived at Belzec extermination camp as well as the stacks in which the bodies of the murdered were buried.

There is a fragment of a poem engraved into the wall near the sculpture reads "Here in this carload, I, Eve, with my son Abel. If you see my older boy, Cain, the son of man, tell him that I...'
(written in pencil in a sealed railway-car)

Written in pencil in a sealed railway car, is a poem about humanity.
 Dan Pagis’ short yet striking Hebrew poem.