NARRATOR In every Holocaust museum you visit, you will find multiple representations of the number six. MARK We do have several places in our building that we symbolize the number six, representing the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Probably the most noted location is the front of the building, at the base of the uh Destroyed Communities ramp. NARRATOR Architect Mark Mucasey shares more about the six steel pillars located in front of the museum’s main entrance. MARK We use steel because the rest of the building's exterior detailing was designed in industrial materials—brick and steel and glass—that were used at the time that the Holocaust occurred. And we wanted to take one of those materials and use that as a memory stick. MARK There's something that I think is very compelling about a steel piece that normally you would expect to be part of a, a skyscraper. And when you isolate it and you put four bolts and you hold it down to the ground, and it sticks up into the air doing no work, supporting no elements other than itself, all of a sudden, I think that compels you to, to notice that that element is making a statement. It's making a memory statement by itself. NARRATOR CEO Dr. Kelly Zúñiga offers additional insight for this industrial material’s appropriateness to a museum dedicated to the Holocaust: KELLY I think it has to do with the overall intention of the architecture of the building. It's very harsh. It's very industrial. It almost looks cruel. It's harsh and hard and I think that it's that symbolism of 6 million people being murdered in the Holocaust is just right in your face.