great post, I really enjoy my European tour that I'm experiencing thru you, so thank you. Or shall I say European/UK? LOL.
Anne Franks house, I seriously couldn't breathe, wow, that must have been just WOW. We took a family trip to Boston a few years ago and spent FOREVER walking thru the Holocoust Memorial, I think I cried for hours after, OK I'm crying now. It was one of the most emotional things I've experienced.
"From architect Stanley Saitowitz’s description of the Memorial: The memorial to darkness is built with light. The construction began on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day. | The horror of the Holocaust is reenacted in the brutal cutting of all the trees on half the site. These stumps remain. Six pits are dug and lined with black concrete. | At the bottom of each pit is a glowing fire. Six glass towers are raised above. | Etched on the glass towers are SIX MILLION numbers that flicker with light. | On the walls of each tower, a memory of a survivor from the camp is etched. | Between the towers, a line of text locates the Holocaust in historical context. At the two entries are didactic panels, one outlining the chronology of events that led to the Wannsee Conference and the horrific propositioning of establishing the factories of death this memorial marks, the other quoting Pastor Martin Niemoller, who placed responsibility for such even in the hands of every individual. As visitors walk along this path, entering the towers, they are tattooed with the shadows of numbers, and trapped momentarily in a theater of horror. On the black granite ramps is incised REMEMBER. | Each of the six burning chambers is named after one of the six death camps constructed in Poland, factories whose product was death: CHELMNO. TREBLINKA. MAJDANEK. SOBIBOR. AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU. BELZEC. At the scale of the city, the memorial has another role: path, colonnade and frame create urban space, defining edges and relationships with the buildings and city beyond. These six towers are emblems of faith, a covenant of trust that memorializes a collective evil. They are towers of hope and aspiration."
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Anne Franks house, I seriously couldn't breathe, wow, that must have been just WOW. We took a family trip to Boston a few years ago and spent FOREVER walking thru the Holocoust Memorial, I think I cried for hours after, OK I'm crying now. It was one of the most emotional things I've experienced.
"From architect Stanley Saitowitz’s description of the Memorial:
The memorial to darkness is built with light. The construction began on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day. | The horror of the Holocaust is reenacted in the brutal cutting of all the trees on half the site. These stumps remain.
Six pits are dug and lined with black concrete. | At the bottom of each pit is a glowing fire.
Six glass towers are raised above. | Etched on the glass towers are SIX MILLION numbers that flicker with light. | On the walls of each tower, a memory of a survivor from the camp is etched. | Between the towers, a line of text locates the Holocaust in historical context.
At the two entries are didactic panels, one outlining the chronology of events that led to the Wannsee Conference and the horrific propositioning of establishing the factories of death this memorial marks, the other quoting Pastor Martin Niemoller, who placed responsibility for such even in the hands of every individual.
As visitors walk along this path, entering the towers, they are tattooed with the shadows of numbers, and trapped momentarily in a theater of horror.
On the black granite ramps is incised REMEMBER. | Each of the six burning chambers is named after one of the six death camps constructed in Poland, factories whose product was death: CHELMNO. TREBLINKA. MAJDANEK. SOBIBOR. AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU. BELZEC.
At the scale of the city, the memorial has another role: path, colonnade and frame create urban space, defining edges and relationships with the buildings and city beyond. These six towers are emblems of faith, a covenant of trust that memorializes a collective evil.
They are towers of hope and aspiration."