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Flags, Monuments and Horror—What the USA Can Learn from Berlin

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July 7, 2015

Some of you may remember that I started this blog when I went to Europe on a fellowship from FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics) as a rabbinical student. We seminarians spent several days in Berlin studying and seeing the sights. One of the things that impressed me most is the movement to create public testaments to the horror of the Holocaust, often right next to the cities more conventional monuments. From homes that were once the property of disappeared Jews to infamous railroad stations to one of the most prestigious universities in Europe, one finds anti-monuments; plaques and negative spaces that stand for the resounding absence of those who were taken away and killed.


I thought of that when I saw “>returning, could benefit us in the South and all over the USA. Please check this out.


No, I’m not going all “>link to my post from Berlin. May our stories move us to action.

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