A lasting memorial honors all victims of Nazism and serves as a reminder of what hate can do to mankind if decent people are not vigilant to prevent such a calamity in the future. It remembers the six million Jews and all other victims who perished at the hands of the Nazis from 1933 to 1945, recalls martyrs annihilated in Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Majdanek, Treblinka, and other concentration camps, invokes the grief expressed in Lamentations 1:12, and honors the ghetto fighters and the U.S. Armed Forces who helped defeat the scourge of Nazism.
