Apartment Finder: Holocaust Memorial Boston

Wednesday 21 November 2012

Holocaust Memorial Boston

Each tower symbolizes a different major and , but can also be taken to be the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust (one million per column), and the six years that the mass extermination took place, 1939-1945.Each tower consists of twenty-four individual panels of glass. Twenty-two of the panels are inscribed with seven digit numbers and two of the panels are inscribed with messages. In total there are 132 panels from the six towers inscribed with numbers, however each panel is identical. A single panel contains 17,280 unique numbers which are subsequently repeated throughout the memorial. Numbers are arranged in eight by ten blocks, with each block consisting of sets of six numbers arranged in a six by six grid. In totalthere are 2,280,960 non-unique numbers listed on the 132 panels.The New England Holocaust Memorial is located near the , and is only a few steps off the trail, making it a