The pillars themselves are illuminated at night from top to bottom and a metal grate is located at the bottom of each pillar. The grates release a stream of steam which wafts through the glass column.
If you look at the walls of the pillars, you find numbers etched in the glass. The memorial contains six million numbers which represent each of the victims who lost their lives during the Holocaust.
Contained on the granite walkway that leads through the pillars were factual statement about the Holocaust and on the column walls themselves are personal statements from some of the victims. I found this one to be especially touching:
It reads:
"ILSE, A CHILDHOOD FRIEND OF MINE,
once found a raspberry in the camp
and carried it in her pocket all day
to present to me that night on a leaf.
IMAGINE A WORLD in which
your entire possession is
one raspberry and
you give it to your friend"
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That mustve been a very "real" experience for you. I think I felt similar to what u might have felt when we went to visit the Nagasaki Bobm Museum.
Yeah, it was very touching. I can only imagine how heavy the Nagasaki Bomb Museum was, we went to the Hiroshima Memorial and I remember it being very graphic. They had models of the scenes following the dropping of the bomb that were very disturbing. But I figure that people should be disturbed by it, the memorial should act as a reminder of why that should never happen again.
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