Remembering Auschwitz
Earlier this week, the world commemorated the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Holocaust survivors, relatives of those who survived and those who perished, politicians, historians and tourists alike all made the trek up to cold, snowy Polish town to remember, reflect and move on.
The wealth of material and media on the Holocaust is astounding. Everything from Schindler's List to The Diary of a Young Girl, from Life is Beautiful to The Pianist, from Carrion Comfort to multitudes of scholarly articles and poems on the Shoah has been read, disseminated, criticized, honored, parodied, enshrined and immortalized. Such is the legacy of the Holocaust - that sixty-five years after its liberation, Auschwitz still commands an unshakeable grasp on the human psyche.