They Could Do No Other

As a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, I was privileged to visit Europe in 1979 with other members of the Council, to get ideas for an appropriate Holocaust memorial in the United States. We visited Warsaw and Treblinka, Auschwitz and Birkenau, Kiev and Babi-Yar, and Moscow. Ou...

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1. Verfasser:	Robert McAfee Brown
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anthropology Authoritarianism Behavioral sciences Catholicism Christianity Crimes against humanity Criminal law Criminal offenses Ethnic groups Ethnology Ethnoreligious groups Fascism Heroism Holocaust Human behavior Jewish peoples Law Nazism Political ideologies Political philosophy Political science Religion Spiritual belief systems
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Zusammenfassung:	As a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, I was privileged to visit Europe in 1979 with other members of the Council, to get ideas for an appropriate Holocaust memorial in the United States. We visited Warsaw and Treblinka, Auschwitz and Birkenau, Kiev and Babi-Yar, and Moscow. Our final destination was Israel. During the early part of the trip, in both Poland and Russia, we saw monuments, but they were all monuments of dead stone, reminding us of human degradation. In Denmark, however, we encountered monuments of living flesh that testified to the power of human goodness. These