The New England Holocaust Museum in Boston

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WOW what a photo.........I know it is sad, but so powerful...my only hope is that the world never forgets.......!!!! Beautiful Tish!!!!!

August 31, 2010

What a fantastic shot~! I always wanted to go to the Museum in DC but haven't been there yet. And I think it will make me cry when I do go.

August 28, 2010

This looks very impressive and can only imagine how moving it would be IRL, with any luck I may see it one day, sure hope so, tks for posting.

August 27, 2010

The New England Holocaust Museum in Boston

We visited here on our recent visit to Boston. Very powerful and sad.

Plaques and Time Capsule

The memorial begins with two large, granite monoliths which face each other. In between the two monoliths, a time capsule was buried. The time capsule, buried on Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) on April 18, 1993, contains "the names, submitted by New Englanders, of family and loved ones who perished in the Holocaust."

The Glass Towers

The main part of the memorial consists of six, large towers of glass. Each of these towers represents one of the sixth death camps (Belzec, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sobibor, Majdanek, Treblinka, and Chelmno). Each tower is made out of plates of glass that are etched with white numbers, which represent the registration numbers of victims.

There is a paved path which travels through the base of each of these towers.

Along the sides of the concrete, in between the towers, are short quotes that give information as well as give remembrance. One quote reads, "Most infants and children were killed immediately upon arrival at the camps. The Nazis murdered as many as one and a half million Jewish children."