The Holocaust Historiography Project

Remarkable Nonsense about the Holocaust

Is it because shoes have tongues?

On Storytelling and Remembrance

By A.K. Gupta
From the November 1, 2006 Indypendent
http://www.indypendent.org/?p=674

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The Diary of Anne Frank made real the 11 million deaths of the Holocaust. One of the most affecting displays in the Holocaust Museum is the room with a jumble of shoes. It allows us to grasp the enormity of the murder when we see thousands of pairs of shoes, each one taken from a unique life, itself just a fraction of the total count.

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