I'm not sure what to say about and what photos to show from the emotionally wrenching Mémorial de la Shoah, France's memorial to the holocaust. One of the walls covered with the names of the deported? One of the walls of photos of the children? The eternal flame, underground, in the dark crypt? How about the rooms of historical artifacts: the run up to the war; the stories of evil Germans; the weak/evil collaborators; and the photos and documents and other historical evidence? Or the fact that visitors to the memorial must pass armed guards, metal detectors, and bulletproof glass, and that one must be buzzed in to enter and buzzed out to leave?
The Shoah Memorial doesn't limit itself to the Jewish genocide. A current exhibition is "Homosexuals and lesbians in nazi Europe" which documents the precarious situation for gay people during the time of the war, and afterwards.
The nazi badge of shame, the pink triangle, was co-opted in the 1970s by the LGBT movement. Then in 1986, a NYC artists' collective, the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power or ACT UP, turned the triangle upside down and added the slogan "Silence=Death" to raise public awareness of the AIDS epidemic and apply pressure on the government and pharmaceutical industry. (Yours truly was living in Boston at the time and participated in a number of ACT UP demonstrations.)
The Shoah Memorial doesn't limit itself to the Jewish genocide. A current exhibition is "Homosexuals and lesbians in nazi Europe" which documents the precarious situation for gay people during the time of the war, and afterwards.
The nazi badge of shame, the pink triangle, was co-opted in the 1970s by the LGBT movement. Then in 1986, a NYC artists' collective, the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power or ACT UP, turned the triangle upside down and added the slogan "Silence=Death" to raise public awareness of the AIDS epidemic and apply pressure on the government and pharmaceutical industry. (Yours truly was living in Boston at the time and participated in a number of ACT UP demonstrations.)
The Shoah Memorial doesn't limit itself to the Jewish genocide. A current exhibition is "Homosexuals and lesbians in nazi Europe" which documents the precarious situation for gay people during the time of the war, and afterwards.
The nazi badge of shame, the pink triangle, was co-opted in the 1970s by the LGBT movement. Then in 1986, a NYC artists' collective, the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power or ACT UP, turned the triangle upside down and added the slogan "Silence=Death" to raise public awareness of the AIDS epidemic and apply pressure on the government and pharmaceutical industry. (Yours truly was living in Boston at the time and participated in a number of ACT UP demonstrations.)