I wonder why we should have Holocaust Museums in the United States? Does Germany have Wounded Knee museums? WWII Japanese interment museums? Get the point?
Watch the Band of Brothers episode “Why We Fight” and maybe you’ll begin to understand the impact of the Holocaust on the U.S. and in particular on the soldiers who liberated the camps.
I got the point as soon as I started to read the article. I looked it up and found a list of forty-nine Holocaust memorials and museums in the U.S. Did you know there wasn’t even a memorial in Washinton D.C. to our own World War II veterans until the early 2000s?
The war has been over for 71 years. Most of our veterans are gone. Nearly all of the Holocaust survivors are gone. Unless this project has some particular meaning to Birmingham, I’d go with fixing up a run-down cemetery that is actually a part of the city’s history.