Wednesday Doorway

This week's doorway isn't really a doorway, but to me, for at least a brief moment, it looked a little bit like a doorway into the past. Photo taken at the New England Holocaust Memorial near Fanueil Hall.

Remembering

Visitor inside the New England Holocaust Museum, located on Congress Street near Faneuil Hall. Enlarge the image to see more clearly the numbers etched on the glass. These numbers represent the registration numbers of the six million victims of the six major nazi death camps. Other images of the memorial.

Remembering

Yesterday there was an attack by a gunman at the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and a security guard was killed. These are some of the stones and pebbles left at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston. Leaving stones is a tradition meant to honor the memory of the deceased. Today another stone will have to be added to the memorial.

Remembering

Inscription on one of the glass towers of the New England Holocaust Memorial. The numbers you can see inscribed in the glass are the numbers of the inmates at the camps.

"From our barracks we could see the gas chambers, A heart-rending cry of women and children reached us there. We were overcome by a feeling of helplessness. There we were watching and unable to do anything.

We had already worked out a plan of escape. But at that moment I decided -- we must not simply escape. We must destroy the fascists and the camp."

Alexander Pechersky
Holocaust survivor
Captured Russian soldier who led the prisoner revolt at Sobibor

New England Holocaust Memorial II

Here is another view of the Holocaust Memorial. My earlier picture of the six glass towers can be seen here.

New England Holocaust Memorial

Located near Fanueil Hall, the six glass towers of the memorial represents the six major nazi 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 the six million victims.

To visit the New England Holocaust Memorial website click here.