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Six million pebbles will be encased in rectangular plexiglass columns, standing on a map of Eastern Europe and enclosed by barbed wire. The pebbles in each column will represent the number of Jews slaughtered in each East European country by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. The whole scene will be...
No doubt six million pebbles--three million sitting atop Poland alone--will be quite a sight. And that's the point, of course, said David Poskin, a Brandeis first-year student who is coordinating the display through the Brandeis Hillel. "It wasn't just six million that died," he explained...
Indeed, Poskin and the rest of the Brandeis organizers will make six million mean much more than a number to those participants in the Holocaust Remembrance Week. If six million is too large a figure for many to imagine, then the display and the penny drive will help people associate...
With these facts and numbers in mind, then, the Brandeis Holocaust display and penny drive misses the mark. Why are Jewish lives more important than the lives of other Holocaust victims? Why should Jews alone be remembered by the Brandeis memorial while the other nameless, faceless victims are relegated to...
The inclusion of the five million non-Jewish Holocaust victims in the Brandeis project would not have diminished its effectiveness. In fact, if Poskin's group is relying on the visual impact of six million pebbles to accomplish its goal, it seems that the sheer sight of 11 million pebbles...