North End Houses Hauntingly Beautiful Memorial

Right here, in the North End, the New England Holocaust Memorial majestically flows into the sky.

Six 50-foot-high glass and steel towers, located at the corner of Hanover and Union streets, pay homage to Holocaust victims and recollections of survivors.

It was designed by Stanley Saitowitz, selected through an international competition and dedicated in 1995. Stories of those who lived through the nightmare of being in the camps are set into the glass.  The towers have the etchings of 6 million numbers – the identifying tattoo of those Jewish victims of the Nazi’s actions during World War II.

Manufactured steam rises from grates in the granite base.

At night, viewers have stated, the towers glow like ghosts who pledge “never to forget.”

Have you been to this hauntingly beautiful memorial? If so, what did you feel?