The New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, MA was created y a group of survivors of the Holocaust. It is located near Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market and is a part of the historic Freedom Trail. The memorial is designed around 6 glass towers with 6 pits that are dug and lined with black concrete. Etched on the glass towers are six million numbers and a memory of a survivor from the camp. According to the official site (http://www.nehm.org/the-memorial/design-of-the-memorial/) of the memorial: " The number six has many meanings here: the millions of Jews killed in the Holocaust; the names of the six main death camps; a row of memorial candles; and the six years, 1939-1945, during which the infamous “Final Solution,” the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, took place. In addition, six million numbers are etched in the glass, representing the infamous tattoos inflected on many of the victims’ arms."
Really emotional. Looking at all the numbers on the glass walls and with steam coming out of the drain. I believe the steam symbolizes the gas chambers of what they were like in the concentration camps killing all those poor innocent Jewish people.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful memorial. I went there twice, I believe, to see this. Crazy how they fit 6 million Numbers on it!
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