The Tolerance Monument (

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History

The monument was designed by Polish sculptor Czesław Dźwigaj, known for his

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, in collaboration with sculptor Michal Kubiak. The project was funded by Polish businessman

Aleksander Gudzowaty Aleksander Gudzowaty (22 September 1938 – 14 February 2013) was a Polish people, Polish businessman and economist, and one of Poland's wealthiest people. Biography Gudzowaty graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Trade at the Łódź Univ ...

to promote peace and tolerance in the

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. Etched on a

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at the entrance to the park are the following words: "The monument is in the form of two halves of a broken column, which stand divided but still linked, on the ruins of a nameless and ageless

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. An

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grows in the middle of the split

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and with its leaves seeks to encompass and shade both halves. The tree enables the two parts of the column to link together in symbolic coexistence. It cannot be known when the break will heal, when the two sides will grow back together but it can be seen that between the branches of the olive tree a new seed is sprouting, a golden grain of tolerance." The monument is situated on a hill marking the divide between

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Armon HaNetziv and

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Jabel Mukaber, just outside the

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headquarters.

References

External links

A PowerPoint presentation detailing Jerusalem's Tolerance Monument proposalThe Jerusalem Foundation highlighting the erection of the Tolerance Monument and ParkInterview with Aleksander Gudzowaty regarding the Tolerance MonumentUnveiling of the Tolerance monument at Getty Images
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