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...brings a passion for accuracy and considerable creativity to his personal and professional life. He has built two homes from the ground up, including his present one. A lecturer and the creator of maps for hundreds of books, Paul designed the wall-size maps for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, scheduled to open in Washington this spring. All that is not to mention the more than 1,000 maps he has done for TIME. Small wonder that his car sports customized license plates that read MAP ONE. "When I give lectures," Paul says, "people often ask, 'Aren't you afraid...
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...
Mounting a Holocaust exhibit that was distinctive from others around the world took some imagination. An eight-story Tower of Witness will be embedded with hundreds of photos found in death camps. Just as striking is the re- creation of a concentration camp. It begins with a tactile shock: the museum's soft carpeting suddenly gives way to rough concrete. The smells and shadings of stone and steel fill the room. To continue, visitors must choose between passageways labeled ABLE BODIED or CHILDREN AND OTHERS. They have been told the second door meant death for boys and girls...
...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...
...attorney, who is also involved in the Holocaust Human Rights Research Project, says he maintains an intense interest in human rights violations and war crimes overseas, and he tries to work current events into his course...