Image courtesy of Schwartz/Silver Architects

A future stop on Boston’s Freedom Trail will serve as a cautionary reminder of the historical forces that led to the Holocaust.

The Holocaust Legacy Foundation unveiled its design this week for the history museum at 125 Tremont St., with the goal of making the property a visiting stop for students throughout New England.

Organizers met with Holocaust scholars and organizations representing survivors in drawing up the plans for the nearly 33,000-square-foot museum across from Boston Common.

The foundation, formed in 2019, seeks approval to demolish a 3-story former bank building and replace it with the 6-story museum.

Designed by Schwartz/Silver Architects of Boston, the building facade features a mesh facade that potentially symbolizes concentration camp fences, organizers said in a submission to the Boston Planning & Development Agency. A fifth-floor exhibit would include a European rail car used to transport Jews to concentration camps under the Nazi regime.

The museum partnered with the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, founded by director Steven Spielberg, on holographic displays of interviews with Holocaust survivors.

Permanent galleries will be located throughout the building, and a fifth-floor event space will host educational programs.

Foundation co-founders Jody Kipnis and Todd Ruderman noted that Holocaust education became a mandatory part of the curriculum for Massachusetts students in middle school and high school under a law enacted in 2021. The museum will include two classrooms, along with office and event space.

The plans retain the 1880s granite facade of the former bank building, which most recently included office and retail space, and was acquired by the foundation in 2022.