5 /5 RPC: Harrowing. Poignant. Ominous. Reverent.
These are words that may describe the feelings you get when you step foot on a truly magnificent display of a time where anything but was prevalent. In honoring the many lives lost during the Holocaust, this paradigmatic memorial does a great job displaying emotion of horrors that were the reality to many unfortunate souls. There is a wall with the names of the people that were snuffed out of existence by some of the most inhumane ways an individual should never have to succumb to. The extended arm sculpture in the middle of the memorials path, surrounded by very still dark water. It is melded from forearm to wrist with an amazing attention to detail as well as undefined fear and sorrow to end with an out stretched hand, grasping for what is not there. There is a back walkway that depicts some truly sobering moments of life in a kill camp and the hopelessness that still did not break the strong will of the ones sent there.
This is a place you should definitely stop by and check out, regardless of what denomination you are. I feel like this is a hidden gem of south beach that hides in plain sight. With all the business of day to day, take a moment to walk through here and see what being worked to death really was like.