Harris: What context are we creating here?
On Monday I read names in front of Sterling Memorial on Holocaust Memorial Day. A friend and I sat together on a folding chair, alternatively evoking lives through name, birth date and place, and death date and place, and at times pausing to discuss thoughts the ceremony brought to us.
It is not that they died in the Holocaust — it is that they lived it, I realized.
They lived the death, Mimi pointed out. And they lived it because others were carrying out their ideologies, their visions for an ideal world.
I had to think about this, shocked. The Nazis thought they...
