Visit to Eastern Europe
The moment that touched me most on my recent trip through Eastern Europe was not when I visited Auschwitz – thought the room packed with hair shorn by Nazis from thousands of Jewish corpses fresh from gas chambers overwhelmed me with sadness. It was not in the beautiful new Daniel Libeskind-designed Jewish Museum in Berlin, which tells the story of 2,000 years of Jewish life and growing anti-Semitism in Germany. It was not even on the shaded “Platform 17” – from which tens of thousands of... Sign in to see full entry.