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"Along the Freedom Trail, just past Faneuil Hall, is the New England Holocaust Memorial. Historically, sixty
years ago, the Nazis killed about six million Jews. The Nazis had also persecuted or murdered millions of others including Romas, Poles, Slavs,
Soviets, homosexuals, communists, trade unionists, political or religious dissidents, and people with special needs. The memorial is comprised of 6 fifty-four foot glass towers. They represent the major Nazi concentration camps: Majdanek,
Chelmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Each tower is illuminated from the top and bottom. There are six million
numbers etched into the glass, from one to six million. Smoke rises from the base inside each tower.
Less known about the towers, is that in low winter direct sunlight, one can reach behind the glass and the numbers will reflect onto your hand or arm.
The New England Holocaust Memorial arouses memories of a very tragic period in human history.
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