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...Germans were confronting their countrymen's bestiality in detail more vivid than some could stand, many Israelis were reluctant to relive it. "People here live the Holocaust," says Tel Aviv resident Noga Reshef, 29. "They teach it in school, they hold ceremonies, and every year there is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Day. We can't escape the Holocaust; it sits on our shoulders." Others had more personal reasons for wanting to avoid the experience. "I'm afraid of these movies," said Pinchas Pistol, a Plaszow survivor who witnessed too much of the Nazis' random sadism. "Every time...
Forty posters portraying a photographic and narrative history of the Holocaust were displayed in the Forum at the Kennedy School of Government Tuesday in honor of the Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Hashoah...
...Beit Hashoah is special because it insists that spectators be part of the show, using the latest tricks of interactive technology generally found only in science museums. At computerized displays, visitors are challenged on their attitudes toward everything from affirmative action to homosexuality. At every turn they must make choices. Thus the museum becomes both an educational tool and a research tool that gauges public opinion...
When Rabbi Marvin Hier, the Wiesenthal Center's founder, began planning the Beit Hashoah in the early 1980s, he envisioned a rather conventional Holocaust museum. But he soon realized that it should be more. "We're talking about the eradication of hatred," he explains. "We have no guarantee that future Holocaust victims will be Jews." Karl Katz, a museum designer who helped plan the Beit Hashoah, recalls intense arguments about the plans: "You ask yourself what happens between the time a human being is born and the time he incinerates someone. How do you stop that attitude? We tried lots...
...Along with admirers, the Beit Hashoah already has critics. Muslim organizations charge that the museum ignores the plight of Palestinians. New York Times senior writer Judith Miller, author of One, by One, by One: Facing the Holocaust, accuses the museum of "vulgarization," noting that some Jewish scholars consider the "sound and light" approach disrespectful...