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Besides erecting the Holocaust memorial, Poskin said his group also hopes to collect six million pennies, from fundraisers and donations, to honor each of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The pennies, $60,000 worth, will then be donated to selected Holocaust-related charities...
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 a six and six zeroes with the six million Jewish people swallowed in the flames of the Holocaust. In this case, assuming everything goes as planned (and Poskin is optimistic that everything will), the project will be a success...
Poskin and friends are five million pebbles, pennies and people short of presenting the true heinousness of the Holocaust. Six million is the right number if you're talking about the number of Jewish victims of the Holocaust. But it's not if you're referring to the total number of people slaughtered by the Nazis, 11 million. That's six million Jews--and five million gypsies, gays, political prisoners, handicapped people and Eastern Europeans...
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 numerical dustbin of history...
...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 would only hammer home even harder the horrors of the Holocaust. Simple arithmetic, right...