The memorial was designed in 1991 by the Hungarian artist Imre Varga. From a different direction, you can notice that the weeping willow has a sort of Menorah shape, with 7 stems facing upwards.
The statue is located in the back garden of the building, a place where 24 mass graves were forced to be buried, with a total of 2,281 Jews buried, who died from the coldness of the last winter during the Holocaust. Jews who passed away from all around the Ghetto were brought here at the end of the war.
The names of the dead etched on the leaves on the tree in the memorial were requested by donors, and the tradition continues throughout the years, in a yearly ceremony where new leaves are added to the tree. On the leaf before the last one on each branch a number is written, like is common in all Hungarian Jewish cemeteries.
Nearby, 4 marble plaques are placed, with the names of 240 Hungarian Righteous Among the Nations, who saved Jews during the Holocaust, while risking their own lives, and the lives of their family.