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While visiting Veronica in Portland, we stopped by the Oregon Holocaust Memorial. I'm fascinated by the different ways in which various cities and countries have chosen to remember the atrocity of Hitler's Holocaust. The Oregon memorial features a stone bench that sits behind a circular, cobblestoned area intended to simulate a town square. During the Holocaust, many Jewish families were gathered in town squares before being loaded onto trains and taken to concentration camps. The square contains scattered bronzes of shoes, glasses, a suitcase, and other items to represent everyday objects that were left behind. A cobblestone walkway with inlaid granite bars to simulate railroad tracks leads to a wall of history panels and a soil vault panel with interred soil and ash from six killing-center camps: Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, Majdanek, and Auschwitz-Birkenau. | When we lived in Stuttgart, I visited Dachau. I've walked through the showers-cum-gas chambers. I've stood before the crematorium furnaces. I've seen the photos of a room stacked nearly to the ceiling with corpses and then walked into that same room, cavernously empty. And while that experience helped me know what happened from 1933-1945, there was something about this memorial in Oregon that hit me on a visceral level. Seeing those bits and pieces of ordinary human lives interrupted so violently takes 'knowing' to 'feeling'. It was the single baby shoe that hit me hardest ... like a punch to the gut. Bravo to the designers of this memorial. It's as Elie Wiesel said: 'For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.'
