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Memorial to the Victims of the 1506 Massacre, Lisbon

Inaugurated as part of the 500th anniversary of the event, the Memorial to the Victims of the 1506 Massacre is located on the site where it took place, in the square in front of Igreja de São Domingos (St. Dominic Church), in Lisbon.

It was created in 2008 by Graça Bachmann, on a proposal from the Jewish Community. A piece in stone, a sphere, symbol of the world which, truncated, evokes violence and chaos, where there is an inscription alluding to the massacre, on the Star of David; at the base, on a rectangular block of stone on which the sculpture rests, one can read a phrase from the Book of Job, "Oh earth, do not hide my blood, do not hide my cry".

In the late afternoon of 19 April 1506, Dominican friars instigated the Lisbon population to kill the New-Christians. Between two and four thousand people are said to have died in a barbaric manner, incinerated in piles in various parts of the city.

Next to this memorial, right in front of the Church door, is another monument where, in 2000, the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, José Policarpo, took shame for the inquisitorial persecution.