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Before leaving Warsaw, John Paul paid unannounced visits to monuments commemorating his homeland's tragic ordeal in World War II. Accompanied only by Glemp, Franciszek Cardinal Macharski of Cracow and Vatican Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, the Pope visited the grim confines of Pawiak Prison, an infamous Nazi death house that has been preserved as a monument to thousands of Poles who were tortured and executed there. In a small square in front of the prison entrance, he knelt in silent prayer before a mulberry tree bearing dozens of painted metal plaques with the names of Pawiak victims...
Your Essay on an American memorial to the Holocaust victims [May 23] speculates on the propriety of a monument to an event that is "utterly European" and "a horror in which Americans had no part." The responsibility for the Holocaust should not be limited to the Nazis and their collaborators. We who knew of the horror and did not stop it are also guilty. Reports of the death camps were smuggled to Allied authorities with the urgent appeal that the rail lines to the camps and the gas chambers be bombed. This request was denied because, it was said, these...
...proposed Holocaust memorial raises two questions: 1) Why should Americans erect a monument to those who died as a result of a crime in which the U.S. had no part? and 2) Why not commemorate all victims of genocide? The answer to these questions lies in the realization that the destruction of the Jews was an irrational act that had no political, economic or military justification. The slaughter was the logical outcome of a twisted ideology based on the concept of a master race and was a unique phenomenon in history. All countries should have a Holocaust monument so that...
...other. Brown enlivens his text with quotes, none more pertinent than Wiesel's self-analysis: "When you live on the edge of the mountain, you see the abyss, but you also see very far." Brown sees almost as far, but then he is standing on a monument...
...memorial in Washington will be different. It will be installed on the edge of the Mall, not far from the Washington Monument. It will be utterly European. It will reek of a European suffering and evil...