Holocaust Memorial at Legion of Honor
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George Segal's public sculpture, "The Holocaust," sits in Legion of Honor Park in San Francisco overlooking a beautiful
view of the Pacific Ocean. Often visitors find the sculpture an unexpected intrusion on the view, and an unfriendly
reminder to one of the most significant genocides of the 20th century. Segal's work is executed in bronze and
painted white. It has been the subject of grafitti, but Segal mentioned, at a 1998 conference at Notre Dame University,
that he did not find this a problem since grafitti was a reminder that problems of prejudice have not been solved.