Holocaust Museum Dc Quotes

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Engraved upon the wall of the U.S. Holocaust Museum Washington D.C.

Saulius Berzinis: You bought a tooth? It was possible to buy a tooth? Regina Prudnikova (interviewed in April 1988): Yes, yes, [a gold tooth]. I got it cheap. When the Russians invaded, I bought it from this one woman. SB: Where is that tooth now? RP: Right here (points to a gold tooth in her mouth). They melted it down and made it truth for me. That woman's husband shot Jews, and sold me the whole crown. SB: So you bought the crown along with the whole tooth? RP: Yes, with the tooth. SP: So that means you profited from the Jews, too? RP: How did I profit? I paid for that tooth Credit to: Jeff and Toby Herr Collection at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC.

* I visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and was deeply moved by its depiction of Nazi atrocities against the Jews. What struck me most personally, however, was a section early in the exhibit that demonstrated how the early discrimination laws against the Jews—the “Jews Only” shops, park benches, rest rooms, and drinking fountains—were explicitly modeled on segregation laws in the United States.