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The winning design for the National Holocaust Monument was unveiled Monday at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

The structure entitled “Landscape of Loss, Memory and Survival,” features six concrete triangles that form a Star of David. It was designed by Team Lord of Toronto and will be built near the Canadian War Museum in downtown Ottawa.

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Landscape architect Claude Cormier told Postmedia News that visitors will walk in at one end, where a slope carries them down to the centre. Surrounded by concrete and cut off from their surroundings, they can see explanations of the horrors of the Holocaust.

“We must never forget the millions of lives that were affected because of a narrow ideology that persecuted and took the lives of countless Jews and others: dissidents and people with disabilities,” Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said.