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Article: Israel's new Holocaust museum taps writings, artworks for insight.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- March 14, 2005
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Byline: Joel Greenberg
JERUSALEM _ Near the entrance to Israel's new Holocaust History Museum, a collection of snapshots, some with charred edges, is displayed against the backdrop of a grisly scene: the partly burned bodies of Jews killed by the Nazis and local collaborators in Estonia in September 1944.
The snapshots, found in the pockets of the victims, show images of a vanished world_ family photos, soccer teams lined up for a group picture, people at the beach.
The display underscores the declared mission of the new museum, to tell the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of the Jewish victims, using objects they left behind, their ...