The Children’s Tile Wall Memorial

A Dedicated Memorial

In 1990, under the leadership of Adeline Yates, wife of Congressman Sidney R. Yates, a group of Congressional wives and other women formed the Committee to Remember the Children. The committee was created in honor of the estimated 1.5 million children killed during the Holocaust. They invited thousands of students throughout the US to help create this wall of remembrance. American children ages 6 to 16 created more than 3,300 tiles for the wall. The children recorded their impressions of the Holocaust on ceramic tiles that were then combined to create this permanent memorial.

The memorial is located in the Gonda Education Center on the Museum’s Concourse level.