New England Holocaust Memorial
The New England Holocaust Memorial is a memorial in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. It is reminiscent of the killed Jews during the Holocaust.
Description
The monument was designed by Stanley Saitowitz and erected in 1995. It consists of six glass towers, can pass through the visitors. On the outer walls of each tower are carved groups of numbers that represent the nearly 6 million victims of the Holocaust. Inside the towers themselves are inscriptions with quotes and smaller stories of survivors.
Each of the towers symbolizes one of the great extermination camp Majdanek, Chelmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec and Auschwitz. However, they can also be interpreted as a menorah, so that each of the towers stands for one million killed Jews, or as a symbol for the six years from 1939 to 1945, in which there was the mass destruction.
Each tower consists of 24 glass panels. 22 of which each have inscriptions on seven -digit numbers on the two remaining plates are texts. Overall, there are listed the panels 132 with numbers, but each of which is identical to the other. A single plate contains 17,280 different numbers that are repeated throughout the Monument of time. They are arranged in eight columns and ten rows of blocks, of which each block contains six sets of points in a grid of six columns and six rows. Overall, there are numbers 2280960 to 132 plates.
One of the inscriptions reads:
The Raspberry ILSE, A CHILDHOOD FRIEND of mine, once found a raspberry in the camp and Carried it in her pocket all day to present to me that night on a leaf. IMAGINE A WORLD In Which your Entire possession is one raspberry and you gave it to your friend.
" The raspberry Ilse, a friend of mine from childhood, found one day a raspberry in the camp and she wore all day in her pocket, in order to give me the night on a leaf. Imagine a world in which your whole property is a single raspberry and you've given your friend. "
Others
The memorial is located in the immediate vicinity of Boston's Freedom Trail within the Carmen Park near Faneuil Hall, which makes the monument a popular tourist attraction. The building is part of the Boston National Historical Park.