Sometime this past summer, I took these OYYO sculpture images at the entrance to the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.
Reading more about the White Supremacist and Holocaust denier that met for dinner earlier last week with the Orange Turd, reminded me of the first time I visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.
I was shocked to learn that when you enter the Holocaust Memorial Museum, you are given an identity card with the name of a real person who was persecuted by the Nazis. Photographs, artifacts, audio and video footage are shown through the exhibit, including a railcar that was used to transport Jews to concentration camps, and that you as visitor are allowed to board. Throughout the exhibit, visitors are given a chance to learn the fate of the individual on their assigned identity card.
It was a disturbing experience to realize how these Jews were killed simply because they practiced a different religion and were part of a different ethnic group. The Museum is free, so I encourage anyone who is visiting Washington DC to learn the truth about the Holocaust by seeing their historic exhibits. It is an experience you will never forget.
Inviting a Holocaust denier to your home for dinner validate these people and validate their views in a way that allows this toxic hate to grow. In the meantime, all we hear from the Republican party is crickets.
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