As local and world leaders show their support for Israel in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks on. Oct. 7, we close in on the 28th anniversary of the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston. In this Oct. 20, 1995 photo, Izzy Arbeiter, 70, of Newton, shows the memorial to Stephan Ross, 64, also of Newton. The memorial was dedicated two days later. Arbeiter, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp who died in 2021, was the president of the American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Greater Boston. Ross was freed from Dachau after being held in 10 camps from 1940 to 1945. He died in 2020. (AP Photo/Julia Malakie)