What do you see when you look at this memorial? I know everyone receives a different message looking at this memorial but first let me describe what I had in mind while I was designing this memorial and some symbolic components I included. First of all, the six chimneys represent the six million Jews that died during the Holocaust. The chimneys are placed in a circle formation because a circle represents unity and the Jews stayed together during the Holocaust and never gave up. The chimneys represent the crematories at the concentration camps that is why they are made out of bricks. For many Jews, the crematories were their final resting place and grave. I made the chimneys all different sizes and colors to show that even though at the concentration camps the Jewish people looked the same, they were all very different and diverse people inside.
Each chimney consists of one million bricks, and each brick has the name of one Holocaust survivor on it. The smoke coming out the tops of the chimneys represents how the air at the camps always smelt like burning flesh because the crematories were always running. The pathway leading into the memorial is made of dirt because it represents how the Nazis made the Jews go on death marches through open fields and the path they took formed a dirt road. I decided to border the memorial with bushes because they make my memorial a peaceful and tranquil setting in which to remember the victims of the Holocaust. I would put my memorial in New York because the city is largely populated and a large number of people would view my memorial everyday. Overall, when people look at my memorial I want them to take a little time out of their busy day to think of all the victims of the Holocaust and remember all they had to suffer..
The Essay on The Holocaust Jewish People
'If we were not an eternal people before, we are an eternal people after the Holocaust, in both its very positive and very negative sense. We have not only survived, we have revived ourselves. In a very real way, we have won. We were victorious. But in a very real way, we have lost. We " ll never recover what was lost. We can't assess what was lost. Who knows what beauty and grandeur six million ...
