Alone with Memories

Alone with Memories sits in Florence Veterans Park, before the Wall of Tears: a woman seated on the ground, holding a folded American flag in her lap.

The piece is personal. Alex made it in honor of his parents, who survived Auschwitz and Mauthausen, and gave it to Florence as a thank-you for the hospitality and kindness the city has shown him. Deborah Baccus, a cardiology nurse at McLeod, sat as the model.

Alone with Memories is one of the stops on the Alex Palkovich Sculpture Trail mapped by Visit Florence.