Tallahasse, Fla. ? The pennies are brown, black, shiny, dirty, newly minted and worn out. An occasional dime even flaunts its silver.

If they could talk, the coins could tell many stories about where they have been. But like the victims of the Holocaust they represent, they can’t.

As a silent and constant reminder of this loss, the Harold & Sylvia Kaplan branch of the Jewish Community Center of the Greater Palm Beaches has stacked 1 million pennies in a Lucite tower in its lobby, on the way to collecting 6 million to honor Holocaust victims.

The Jewish Community Center rejoiced recently in completing that first tower, filled with pennies weighing 3,500 pounds. Donors are filling up another pillar, which has about 300,000 pennies, at the Hochman branch of the JCC in Boynton Beach, Fla. Another 200,000 in West Palm Beach await construction of the next tower.

“People always say, ‘6 million,’ but they have no idea how much that really is,” said Yaron Kapitulnik, the Jewish Community Center’s Judaic enrichment director. “We want these pennies here as a constant reminder. We fail if we only remember the Holocaust one day a year.”