Description: A forty-minute drive south from Pompano Beach, the Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach is a stirring reminder of the atrocities visited on 6 million of Europe’s Jews. Visitors enter the memorial at “The Beginning,” a sculpture of a fearful mother and her two children. From there you’ll walk the Arbor of History, a semicircular colonnade of Jerusalem stone lined by etched granite black walls telling the history of the Holocaust. The Arbor leads to the Dome of Contemplation with its eternal flame, from which visitors enter the Lonely Path – a tunnel with an ever-shortening ceiling, before emerging at the heart of the monument: a 42-foot high sculpture of an arm, reaching towards the sky. The arm is composed of countless agonized figures, meant to evoke the anguish and paid of “life and death in a man-made hell”. The effect of the monument is both chilling and stirring, making it an oft-frequented site for tourists to the Miami Beach area.
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