Lois Dorfman’s sculpture, ‘For This the Earth Mourns’, was unveiled in April 1980, on the grounds of the Jewish Community center in memory of the Holocaust. The bronze artwork contains 13 figures of men, women and children rising from the bricks, frozen in time, stricken, questioning. Mrs. Dorfman had based their faces from photographs of people imprisoned during the Holocaust. In this 1980 Blade archive photo, people solemnly gathered around the round sculpture. An emotional service at the Temple Shomer Emunim preceded the dedication which was held on Yom Hashoah, the day of remembrance. ‘The enormousness of the task and its great meaning produced years of pause and worry, worry, which may never leave me,’ Mrs. Dorfman told The Blade. This year, Yom Hashoah, is Thursday. Go to thebladevault.com/memories to purchase more historical photos taken by our award-winning staff of photographers, past and present, or to purchase combinations of stories and photos…