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BOSTON MA. – JULY 8: Gov.Charlie Baker walks through the memorial with Holocaust Survivor Janet Singer Applefield after an announcement of a new website and interactive features at the New England Holocaust Memorial on July 8, 2021 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - JULY 8: Gov.Charlie Baker speaks during an event to announce a new website and interactive features at the New England Holocaust Memorial on July 8, 2021 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - JULY 8: Josh Kraft, President, Kraft Family Philanthropies, and Acting Mayor Kim Janey listen to speakers during event to announce a new website and interactive features at the New England Holocaust Memorial on July 8, 2021 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - JULY 8: Small stones left as an act of remembrance or respect for the deceased sit on top the entrance to the memorial as survivors and their families listen as speakers announce a new website and interactive features at the New England Holocaust Memorial on July 8, 2021 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - JULY 8: Gov.Charlie Baker walks through the memorial with Holocaust Survivor Janet Singer Applefield after an announcement of a new website and interactive features at the New England Holocaust Memorial on July 8, 2021 in Boston, MA. The numbers on the panels represent the six million Jews who perished during the Holocaust (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - JULY 8: The tattooed numbers on the arm of Holocaust Survivor Anna Ornstein 94,who survived three death camps including two trips to Auschwitz, is shown by her daughter Miriam after a new website and interactive features were announced at the New England Holocaust Memorial on July 8, 2021 in Boston, MA.Ornstein's voice and story is part of the new features. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - JULY 8: Holocaust Survivor Anna Ornstein 94,who survived three death camps including two trips to Auschwitz, talks with fellow survivor Janet Singer Applefield as a new website and interactive features were announced at the New England Holocaust Memorial on July 8, 2021 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - JULY 8: Holocaust Survivor Anna Ornstein 94,who survived three death camps including two trips to Auschwitz, looks at the memorial as she is pushed by her caregiver, Akosua Pinaman as it was announced a new website and interactive features were available at the New England Holocaust Memorial on July 8, 2021 in Boston, MA. Ornstein's voice and story is part of the new features. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - JULY 8: Holocaust Survivor Anna Ornstein 94,who survived three death camps including two trips to Auschwitz, is pushed through rising steam, part of the memorial, as it was announced a new website and interactive features were available at the New England Holocaust Memorial on July 8, 2021 in Boston, MA. Ornstein's voice and story is part of the new features. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - JULY 8: Holocaust Survivor Anna Ornstein 94,who survived three death camps including two trips to Auschwitz, looks at the memorial as she is pushed by her caregiver, Akosua Pinaman as it was announced a new website and interactive features were available at the New England Holocaust Memorial on July 8, 2021 in Boston, MA. Ornstein's voice and story is part of the new features. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - JULY 8: Holocaust Survivor Anna Ornstein 94,who survived three death camps including two trips to Auschwitz, points out numbers on the memorial to her caregiver, Akosua Pinaman as it was announced a new website and interactive features were available at the New England Holocaust Memorial on July 8, 2021 in Boston, MA. Ornstein's voice and story is part of the new features. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - JULY 8: Holocaust Survivor Anna Ornstein 94,who survived three death camps including two trips to Auschwitz, looks at numbers on the memorial as it was announced a new website and interactive features were available at the New England Holocaust Memorial on July 8, 2021 in Boston, MA. Ornstein's voice and story is part of the new features. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - JULY 8: Holocaust Survivor Anna Ornstein 94,who survived three death camps including two trips to Auschwitz, listens to speakers as her daughter Miriam wipes her eyes. A new website and interactive features was announced at the New England Holocaust Memorial on July 8, 2021 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - JULY 8: Gov.Charlie Baker walks through the memorial with Holocaust Survivor Janet Singer Applefield after an announcement of a new website and interactive features at the New England Holocaust Memorial on July 8, 2021 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
Jewish leaders launched new features at the New England Holocaust Memorial on Thursday, saying the modern updates come at a “critical moment” amid an “alarming increase” in reported anti-Semitic violence.
The local leaders in the Jewish community and Holocaust survivors came together to unveil an interactive mobile tour at the downtown Boston memorial.
“We’re here at this memorial at a critical moment for our commonwealth and our country to reaffirm the urgency and importance of Holocaust awareness and education,” said Marc Baker of Combined Jewish Philanthropies.
“It’s been just 75 years since the Holocaust, and somehow it’s like we’ve forgotten already,” he said.
The memorial in memory of the 6 million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust now has a new website and an interactive mobile tour experience.
Visitors can use their mobile phones to activate a nine-stop guided tour of the memorial by scanning QR codes throughout the site.
Each stop features an audio, text or video segment, including testimonials from Holocaust survivors, a short history of the Holocaust, an explanation of the symbolism built into the memorial and resources for educators.
“When we survivors are no longer here, I know that our legacies will continue,” said Holocaust survivor Janet Singer Applefield, 86, who’s featured during one of the memorial stops. “Our stories will not be forgotten.”
“The stories of our survival will be preserved,” she added. “This important history will be saved for posterity.”
Thursday’s event was planned more than two years ago before the pandemic, but the timing of it now “could not be more appropriate” given the events this year in Massachusetts, said Jeremy Burton of Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston.
Gov. Charlie Baker at Thursday’s event stressed the importance of standing against hate.
“Because if you don’t, if you give it a chance to breathe, if you give it a chance for people to blow on it, that fire will burn, which is why it’s so important for all of us, every chance we have to step up and say, ‘No,’ ” Baker said.
Boston Acting Mayor Kim Janey said the memorial “stands as a way for us to remember and never forget the horrific tragedy that we have seen in the Holocaust, and to make sure that it never ever happens again.”
People around the world can also experience the memorial virtually at www.nehm.org.
