It was created following the work of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania, chaired by Elie Wiesel, which documented the deportation and murder of Romanian and Ukrainian Jews and Roma under the wartime regime. The memorial was designed by the sculptor Peter Jacobi.
Its central concrete hall is a quiet, enclosed space lit from above, and the surrounding area holds symbolic sculptures, including a column with the Star of David and a wheel recalling the Roma victims.
A walk through the old Jewish quarter can link the memorial with the Choral Temple and the Great Synagogue, which houses a museum on the history of Bucharest's Jewish community, all within walking distance of the Old Town.
