While we were on the Freedom Trail, Ashley said we needed to see the Holocaust Memorial, which is nearby. I readily agreed. It turned out to be my favorite sightseeing. It is very well done and definitely makes you think. It does an amazing job of representing the numbers of people affected. I also hear the memorial is lighted at night, which has to be spectacular. On top of all that, it offered some chances for interesting photography to try to show the experience of seeing the memorial in person. This is my attempt.
Six glass towers, each 54 feet high, commemorate the major Nazi death camps. Smoke rises from charred embers in chambers under the sidewalk below each tower.
Six million numbers are etched in the glass, suggesting the tattooed concentration camp numbers.
Numbers are etched all the way up the towers.
Shadows of numbers.
Some panels also have quotes from survivors of the camps. This one talks about one survivor's tattooed number.
Famous quote by Martin Niemoller at one end of the memorial.
They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
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