After an Article About an Auschwitz Exhibition, More Artifacts Surface

Keep publishing these types of articles to remind people just how crazy (and lethal) it can get if people continue to brand "different" people or immigrants as sub-human. I may be going out on a limb here, but I believe that many Trump supporters would eliminate Mexican-Americans if they could. Yes, that sounds extreme, but if you have listened to them I don't think it is that great a leap for them to put words into actions. Keep publishing this stuff, NYT, so people can be reminded just what a mob can do.

I will never forget the lampshades made from human skin displayed at the entrance to the Yad veShem (Holocaust museum) in Jerusalem at the end of the 1960's. I was so upset that I would not revisit any section of the museum for years.

When i as almost ten years old I would stare and stare and reread the captions below the photographs in Life and Look magazines depicting what our soldiers found at various concentrations camps. It left a scar on me. I do believe Trump is capable of leading the same atrocities here in the USA. He terrifies me as i do believe he is pure evil. I look forward to when he is either arrested, impeached, something, something, before our country is destroyed and I hope it is very soon. Mr. Mueller please, if possible, step it up.

This article reflects the way that the Holocaust affected not only those who experienced it directly, but also their descendants. "Never forget" is not simply a motto; the "final solution" continues to cast its pall today. My relative who helped liberate concentration camp survivors as an American GI could never speak of that experience without tearing up. When I relate his stories, only knowing them second-hand, I choke up as well. A related phenomenon is sometimes evident when non-Jews refer to the Holocaust experience as part of the identity of Jews today. These expressions arise not only in anti-Semitic references to ovens and the like, but also in instances of well-intentioned solicitude. When people observe, in an effort to be reassuring, that an instance of anti-Semitism is not "existential", as if one should be relieved by anything short of genocide, the impact of the Holocaust endures.

An inconvenient truth: the camp was liberated by (gasp) Russians, in case anyone may be the least curious about history and not wanting to forget.

Thank you for this informative and heartbreaking story. Our family has photographs taken in the 1930s of members of our extended family who were murdered by the Einsatzgruppen in Belarus and in Latvia. To look upon their faces is to witness the immeasurable loss to us all. Never forget.

Thank you for this article.

let us never forget.

My family emigrated from Holland & Germany in the early 1800's. They came to Castle Garden, in lower Manhattan, as Ellis Island had yet to become the processing center for new arrivals to the US. We always thought that our family, both maternal & fraternal, had escaped the horror of the Holocaust. My sister, in doing a deep genealogy search, found an entire, unknown branch of my mother's family in Holland that was exterminated in the death camps. The youngest, being a two month-old infant. No Jew can say they are unscathed by the Holocaust. Never forget.

Heartbreaking story, thanks for sharing it.

During WW II, my father, Sidney Falik and a friend, Sid Stenzler were stationed in Italy, at Pisa with the 915 Signal Corps unit of the Air Corps. In much the way that Exodus describes the "liberation" of supplies from the British in Cypress, they liberated American supplies for the Jews of the area who were still in hiding in the hills. In fact, at one point, my father (a PFC) went to the commanding general to complain that there was no electricity in the synagogue but the church was on line. The American general immediately ordered the synagogue connected. Another time, he arranged for the US Army to weld an examination table for Dr. Emden.

Thank you for this beautiful and much-needed article. We must never forget.

Thank you for this compelling article. We must never forget - or allow fellow citizens of the world to forget - the true, incomprehensible horror of WWII and all wars. All war is started by demented individuals with no moral/ethical souls or social conscience. Most get carried away by listening to themselves and can persuade others that their sick ideas have merit. I first learned of the horrors of the holocaust by reading "Exodus" by Leon Uris and books by James Michener. I could barely believe that human beings could treat each other that way. Three years ago I traveled to Europe and made Nuremburg one of my main stops to actually see with my own eyes the first concentration/ extermination camp where the horrors were committed (Dachau) and to see the courtroom where those butchers who did not flee were prosecuted. We are in danger of something errily similar taking root today. We must take every action to make sure it doesn't.