1. Memorial Sites - Legacies of the Holocaust
What happens when the last first-hand witness of the Holocaust passes away, and all we're left with to remember it by are stories and memorabilia? ... I have read Night, Elie Wiesel's harrowing memoir of his experience as a prisoner of Auschwitz, and Anne Frank's diary chronicling her fears and her dreams while praying to escape the wrath of Nazism. ... Now, to compare two of the leading Holocaust museums today, I will begin with Yad Vashem, which when translated, literally means "Hand and Name". ... When you enter Yad Vashem, you walk through a door that leads into w...
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