History | The Holocaust | Nazi War Monuments
Why the Hell Does Canada Still Have Nazi Monuments?
Books teach history, statues and monuments glorify it
In spite of how full of people it was, the room was shockingly silent.
It was as though the gravitas of the stone hall softened our steps as if the dozens of people passing through it all agreed that a single noise would be inappropriate.
We passed by plaques full of the names of the concentration and extermination camps, the scent of beeswax burning heavily in the air. The lit wicks of memorial candles flicker gently against the backdrop of black marble.
Auschwitz. Dachau. Treblinka. Sobibor.
The Hall of Remembrance is a beautiful room, heavy and imposing, and after walking through the pictures, videos, and writings about the Holocaust, it’s like being dashed with cold water.
Like coming up for air after being buried alive under the crushing weight of 6 million dead bodies.
Nobody said anything as we stood in that room, nor even as we left it and walked down through the lobby. We might as well have been in a trance. Trapped in a spell until we heard the voices of new arrivals passing by on their way to start their own…
