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Holocaust Memorial: New England Holocaust Memorial
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  • saccharinicity
  • By saccharinicity on July 7, 2006
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    On Boston's Freedom Trail, the New England Holocaust Memorial is a poignant and touching reminder of this horrific event and stands to serve as a memory of those who perished.

    The memorial is extremely symbolic. Six glass towers, each 54 feet high, symbolize the six main death camps and six million Jews who died. These glass towers are also lit up at night, from top to bottom resembling a menorah of memorial candles. The granite path that allows visitors to walk through the line of towers are fitted with metal grates under each one, covering a 6 foot deep chamber of burning embers, releasing constant steam and recalling images of rising smoke from the death camps. Upon closer inspection of the glass towers, you can see six million numbers etched into the glass, symbolizing the tattooed numbers of the six million people who died under this regime.

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  • Address: Congress Street near Faneuil Hall
  • Phone: 617.457.8755
  • Directions: Congress Street near Faneuil Hall, on Boston's historic Freedom Trail. T stops: Green & Orange Haymarket; Green & Blue Government Center & State on Blue and Orange lines.
  • Website: http://www.nehm.org/
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    Holocaust Memorial: "A beacon of memory and hope"
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  • By Jefie on June 1, 2008
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    The New England Holocaust Memorial came to life thanks to a group of concentration camps survivors who now live in the Boston area. The Memorial is comprised of six glass towers, each 54 feet high, from which smoke rises day and night. The towers of course recall the six main death camps and, thanks to the six million numbers etched in the glass, it also commemorates the tragic destiny of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust.

    The Memorial is located just a short walk away from Faneuil Hall, between Congress and Union St. It is truly worth taking a few minutes to walk through the towers and read the inscriptions on the walls. A very moving experience...

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  • Address: Carmen Park
  • Phone: 617-457-8755
  • Directions: Just off the Freedom Trail, near Faneuil Hall
  • Website: http://nehm.org
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    Holocaust Memorial: Holocaust Memorial
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  • By diver-x on September 8, 2002
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  • Holocaust Memorial - Boston
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    Boston's Holocaust Memorial is a series of transparent structures made to resemble smoke-stacks. Each tower is etched with the numbers that were assigned to holocaust victims. Quotes from survivors are also visible. It's a very moving testimonial for remembrance.

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  • Address: State Street, near Haymarket.
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  • kazander
  • Updated By kazander on July 20, 2005
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    Visiting Boston's Holocaust memorial is a very moving experience. Six tall glass towers reach towards the sky, their sides are etched with numbers that represent the victims. When you enter each tower you stand on a grate witch allows steam to rise through it, reminiscent of the gas chambers. Incribed on the innner walls of the tower are quotes from the victims. It's very powerful.

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  • Address: Congress Street near Faneuil Hall,
  • Directions: The New England Holocaust Memorial is located in Carmen Park, Congress Street near Faneuil Hall, on Boston's historic Freedom Trail.
  • Website: http://www.nehm.org/
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  • By acemj on September 25, 2005
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    Near the Government Center/City Hall and Faneuil Hall, you'll find this moving tribute to the victims of the Holocaust. Two granite monoliths face each other in a straight line connected by a cement path. The path runs under six tall glass towers each of which represents a concentration camp (Belzec, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sobibor, Majdanek, Treblinka, and Chelmno). As you walk underneath each tower, you'll notice its height and names etched into the glass. The names are the victims of the camps and the sheer numbers are staggering. There are also quotes on the glass and underneath there is a metal grate with hot air coming up from below. Underneath the grates, you can get down and peer through and see stones with small lights (possibly representing death and hope). It is indeed, a moving tribute and worth a visit.

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    Holocaust Memorial: Remembrance to the Holocaust Victims
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  • By risse73 on February 16, 2009
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    This is an impressive memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. The massive glass structures are etched with the names of victims who died in the various concentration camps all over Europe at the time of the terrifying reign of Hitler. Going through this memorial is a deeply moving experience that leaves you feeling quite melancholic. It is a powerful testament to where we have been, where we are, and where we are going as a society.

  • Directions: Close to Faneuil Hall and around the "Haymarket" stop on the "T."
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  • sarahandgareth
  • Updated By sarahandgareth on January 27, 2007
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  • Holocaust Memorial if front of Faneuil Hall - Boston
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    by sarahandgareth
    The Holocaust Memorial, as you might expect, is one of the most moving places that you will visit in Boston.

    Dedicated in 1995, the memorial is a unique sensory experience. And, it is especially evocative and chilling at night, when little lights in the base of the six towers twinkle like smouldering fires.

    The memorial consists of six large glass towers, each inscribed with hundreds of thousands of numbers, ultimately representing the six million Jewish people killed in the Holocaust. The towers also have brief quotations from Holocaust survivors etched on the glass, and between each tower there is additional information on the details of the Holocaust - including reference to the non-Jewish victims of the Nazis.

    The design is extremely unsettling, as you might expect, with 'smoke' blowing from each tower also. The simple, stark pieces of testimony are cumulatively very powerful as you journey symbolically from 1933-1945 and end with the quotation from Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemoeller, himself a victim of the camps after being an early sympathiser of Hitler's in the late 1920s, about the necessity to speak out at all time about injustice and worse.

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  • Address: Carmen Park, Congress St
  • Directions: Close to Fanueil Hall, in front of the Union Oyster House.
  • Website: http://www.nehm.com/
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    Holocaust Memorial: Holocaust Memorial
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  • Updated By rids on March 13, 2005
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    Six tall hollow glass pillars erected as a memorial to victims of the Holocaust. Built to resemble smokestacks, the columns are etched with quotes and facts about the human tragedy, with an unusual degree of attention to its non-Jewish victims. Steam rises from grates beneath each of the pillars to accentuate their symbolism, an effect that's particularly striking at night.

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  • Address: Union Street
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  • By moirholj on April 5, 2004
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  • Directions: To the left of Quincy Market across from The Union Oyster House
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    Holocaust Memorial: Holocaust Memorial
  • Updated By Princess104 on October 28, 2005
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  • This is truely a sight that one must see if one has never been to Boston before. Six glass towers etched with six million numbers, represent the six million who died during the Holocaust. The glass towers represent the main concentration camps. There are recollections from survivors also etched into the granite and glass and steam rises from grates located near the towers as well giving the memorial an even more haunting effect. This is a definate must see.

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  • Address: Union Street
  • Directions: Located near Hanover St., Government Center
  • Website: http://www.nehm.org/
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