Consecration of the Holocaust memorial and garden at Bushey New Cemetery

The United Synagogue unveiled a new Holocaust memorial and garden in Bushey New Cemetery on Sunday 23 April, 2023. 160 people attended a consecration service led by the Chief Rabbi. More than a dozen Holocaust survivors and their families were present.
The service was conducted by Dayan Menachem Gelley, the Rosh Beth Din of the London Beth Din, Rabbi Pinchas Hackenbroch, Chair of the Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue, Dayan Ivan Binstock, Senior Rabbi of St John’s Wood United Synagogue and Chazan Jonny Turgel of Stanmore and Canons Park United Synagogue.
There is a widespread custom for Jewish cemeteries to have a Holocaust memorial and on Sunday we were able to honour this custom with a beautiful new memorial and garden to provide a permanent space for contemplation and reflection, to honour the six million and provide a place to mourn for so many of us who lost loved ones in the Shoah but do not know where they died or don’t have a grave to care for.
We are honoured to call it the Sam and Sonja Frieman Holocaust Memorial and Garden. We were only able to build such a magnificent memorial and garden thanks to a very generous legacy donation by Holocaust survivor Sam Freiman and his wife Sonja. Sam and Sonja were members of the 45 Aid Society and Richmond United Synagogue and we would place on record our thanks to the executors of Sam’s Will - Michael Helfgott, Robert Bieber and Paul Lawrence - who have worked closely with us during the pandemic on the design and execution of this important project.
The memorial has been built around the grave of the six Kedoshim (Holocaust victims) buried by the United Synagogue in a unique funeral conducted by the Chief Rabbi at Bushey New Cemetery in January 2019. The victims - which DNA testing revealed to be five adults and one child - were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Their remains had been collected from Birkenau by a Holocaust survivor who returned there some years ago and entrusted them to the Imperial War Museum.
The memorial is open to the public during regular cemetery opening hours.

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