Remembering the Holocaust One Scrap at a Time

For its 20th birthday this year, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum went on “tour” – its word, not mine.  In New York, at a Hilton Hotel, 2,000 people stopped by, 200 of them Holocaust survivors. The survivors wore badges that said “SURVIVOR” in orange letters; they were honored with a noon tribute.  Some put pins in a corkboard map to show where they were at the war’s end – one pierced the border of then-Russia and Afghanistan – and others left their coordinates in a guest book. “Ashwitz – good to be alive.” “In Limoges, France, convent Notre Dame de Nazareth.”  “In the field Fel de Fink – aboard train, after 7 camps @ age 17!!”