Six glass towers honor the victims of the Holocaust

In the heart of Boston, Massachusetts, the New England Holocaust Memorial stands in silent testament to the six million victims of the Nazi genocide. The memorial consists of six glass towers, each symbolizing a major extermination camp - Majdanek, Chełmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Bełżec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Engraved on the outside walls of each tower are groups of numbers representing the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Each tower symbolizes one million of those victims, as well as the six years that the mass extermination took place, 1939-1945. Visitors may walk underneath the towers, where steam rises through metal grates from a dark floor with twinkling lights.

Inscribed on the inner walls of the towers are quotes from survivors of each camp. The memorial, founded by Holocaust survivor Stephan Ross and erected in 1995, serves as a resilient symbol of remembrance. It remains a site of reflection, standing as a monument to the lives lost and the history of the people targeted by the regime.

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