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In the spirit of "How I spent my summer vacation", I present "How I spent my Tuesday morning"
Had an enlightening, stimulating, at times seemingly random conversation over AIM with melfairie in which certain limits were tested, truths faced and realizations arrived at but everybody emerged alive on the other end. Work? What work?
I got out of work at 12 and went to the New England Holocaust Memorial in Faneuil Hall. Today is Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and I wanted to do something to commemorate it. It is a really moving and inspiring memorial, made up of 6 glass towers reaching at least 50 feet into the air. Each tower represents one of the 6 main concentrations camps (Majdanek, Chelmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz), as well as the 6 million Jews killed in them. Numbers from 0000001 to 6000000 are etched on the glass surface of each tower, reminiscent of the tattoos worn on the wrists by the prisoners in these camps. It is much more than my words can describe, anyone who visits Boston must see it.
I took a few pictures there, but I always feel odd photographing monuments, memorials or cemetaries. I guess i don't consider myself to be at the level where my photograph of the memorial would be considered a worthwhile tribute and as a result I almost feel like I am belittling the memory of those commemorated by my immature attempts. I did take a few before my discomfort got the better of me and i got out there, placing a small stone on the black granite, next to dozens of other little pebbles, in an ancient Jewish tradition.
Had an enlightening, stimulating, at times seemingly random conversation over AIM with melfairie in which certain limits were tested, truths faced and realizations arrived at but everybody emerged alive on the other end. Work? What work?
I got out of work at 12 and went to the New England Holocaust Memorial in Faneuil Hall. Today is Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and I wanted to do something to commemorate it. It is a really moving and inspiring memorial, made up of 6 glass towers reaching at least 50 feet into the air. Each tower represents one of the 6 main concentrations camps (Majdanek, Chelmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz), as well as the 6 million Jews killed in them. Numbers from 0000001 to 6000000 are etched on the glass surface of each tower, reminiscent of the tattoos worn on the wrists by the prisoners in these camps. It is much more than my words can describe, anyone who visits Boston must see it.
I took a few pictures there, but I always feel odd photographing monuments, memorials or cemetaries. I guess i don't consider myself to be at the level where my photograph of the memorial would be considered a worthwhile tribute and as a result I almost feel like I am belittling the memory of those commemorated by my immature attempts. I did take a few before my discomfort got the better of me and i got out there, placing a small stone on the black granite, next to dozens of other little pebbles, in an ancient Jewish tradition.