It’s a painful experience, but it’s one that I highly encourage everyone to seek out. Such memorials exist all around the world, and they’re an incredible reminder of how horrible human beings can truly be to one another.
It’s hard to look at the images and read the horrible stories. Do it anyway.
When you take the time to immerse yourself in the history of the Holocaust, you develop a seething disgust towards those who participated in it. It takes root in you, and it flexes its claws whenever you see denial or minimization of the facts.
As you can imagine, it’s hard to square with the idea that my own country is one of those that keeps the denial of the atrocities alive.