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Holocaust Memorial

from Digital Portfolio by Lee Todd Lacks

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On December 26, 1997, my family and I visited the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston. The following day, I wrote this poem. Designed by Stanley Saitowitz, the New England Holocaust Memorial consists of six, fifty-four-foot high towers. Each tower is constructed of twenty-two glass panels, and each panel has thousands of seven-digit numbers etched into it. The overwhelming collective impact of these numbers epitomizes the incalculable human toll of the Holocaust.

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Like a number
etched in plexiglass.

Like a number
sewn into skin.

Like an ember
glowing in a furnace.

Like the woman
who never bore a child.

Like the child
who never grew to manhood.

Like the man
who might have learned the secret.

Of the virus
that afflicts the young body.

Of the child
whose father slaughtered millions.

Like the father
who watched his child dying.

From the virus
that shut the gates of Heaven.

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from Digital Portfolio, released October 23, 2018

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