ABSTRACT
The diminishing number of survivors and witnesses to the Holocaust generates crises of remembering. The city of Boston, Massachusetts inaugurated designer Stanley Saitowitz’s New England Holocaust Memorial in 1995. Located in the heart of downtown Boston, the New England Holocaust Memorial (NEHM) resides in Carmen Park near City Hall and Faneuil Hall. The city of Boston, Massachusetts inaugurated designer Stanley Saitowitz’s New England Holocaust Memorial in 1995. Located in the heart of downtown Boston, the NEHM resides in Carmen Park near City Hall and Faneuil Hall. The NEHM’s copious repetition of false numbers produces an openly avowed truth gap, but the memorial manages its “lies” in order to produce a truth effect. In a broad sense, the NEHM cultivates an intergenerational network of relationality and empathy. It does so in part by networking itself with the Boston Freedom Trail, leveraging the physical proximity to cultivate particular resonances between Holocaust values and sensibilities with those of the US revolution.
