I can't think of many things more moving than visiting the Holocaust museum in Washington. I haven't been to the museum in many years.
The one thing I remember more than anything is the room that was filled with shoes and personal effects of persons moved through the camps. To some is seems impersonal. To me, it took an abstract number of persons killed and showed items that represented each of them. Items which could represent me and others that I love.
I'm glad you got the opportunity to visit the Holocaust museum. No one should make it to Washington and not visit it. I can even remember being there and hearing people asking others what the Holocaust was. They had no idea about what had happened.
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The one thing I remember more than anything is the room that was filled with shoes and personal effects of persons moved through the camps. To some is seems impersonal. To me, it took an abstract number of persons killed and showed items that represented each of them. Items which could represent me and others that I love.
I'm glad you got the opportunity to visit the Holocaust museum. No one should make it to Washington and not visit it. I can even remember being there and hearing people asking others what the Holocaust was. They had no idea about what had happened.
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