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...unsettling moments the visitor almost forgets where he is, almost forgets that this nightmare of multicultural hostility is taking place in something called the Whisper Gallery. The piercing experience is part of an extraordinary new museum that opens this week: the Beit Hashoah -- Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. Built for $50 million by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a human-rights and research organization named after the famed Austrian Jew who helped bring more than a thousand Nazi war criminals to justice, the museum aims to teach tolerance -- by holding a mirror up to visitors of every race and ethnic...
...names of Holocaust victims echoed from the steps of Widener Library yesterday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in observation of Holocaust Memorial Day, or Yom HaShoah...
This week Jews around the world commemorate the victims of the Holocaust by marking days of remembrance and Yom HaShoah (Shoah literally means destruction, and loosely translates to holocaust). As children of the survivors join their parents in lighting memorial candles to the dead, there is a growing sense that the children-now mostly young adults in their 20s or early 30s-are beginning to show some of the same emotional scars as their parents...