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I didn't say anything when the Nazis slaughtered Jews.
The meaning of this sentence itself is that if you don't stand up for the justice of others, you will eventually hurt yourself. This is the freedom of others, and it is also your freedom. If you don't protect the freedom of others, your freedom will eventually be hurt.

There is a passage in front of the Jewish Memorial in Boston.

1. When the Nazis came to arrest * * * people, I kept silent because I was not a * * * person.

When they came to arrest Jews, I kept silent because I am not Jewish.

When they came to arrest the union members, I kept silent because I was not a union member.

When they came to arrest Catholics, I kept silent because I was a Protestant.

When they came for me, no one spoke for me.

The Jewish Monument to the Victims of the Boston Holocaust is located in a small park in the city center. It consists of six glass hollow towers, and the walls of the towers are engraved with prisoners' passwords and quotations from survivors in concentration camps.

There is a small stone tablet with an inscription beside the glass hollow tower.

There are many memorial sites around the world to commemorate the Jews who were massacred by the Nazis in World War II. The monument here is famous because its inscription (Reverend Martin Niemoller's Confession) is thought-provoking.

Monument to the murdered Jews in Europe (German: Denkmal Fü r Dieer Ordet en Juden Europas), also known as the Holocaust Monument.

Located in Berlin, it was designed by Peter Eisenman and the Harper brothers to commemorate the Jews who suffered the Holocaust. It covers an area of 65,438+09,000 square meters (4.7 acres) and has 2,765,438+065,438+0 concrete slabs arranged on a slope in a grid pattern.

The concrete slab is 2.38m long, 0.95m wide and 0.2m high.

The monument was started on April 6, 2003 and completed on February 6, 2004. It was opened on May 2005 10. In May of the same year, Kloc-0/2 began to open to the outside world.

It is located in the south of Brandenburg Gate, near Frederic City. The site of the monument was once the official residence of Hitler's German government minister. The construction cost is close to 25 million euros.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia _ Boston Jewish Holocaust Monument