survivors of the holocaust still live with the horrors. the holocaust remains one of the greatest crimes against humanity. in europe, nazis set out to kill as many jews as possible. they murdered all four of my grandparents and forced my parents into slave labor and external e external nation camps. ignorance fueled them. eight decades later, it s horrifying to see a rise in anti-semitism and holocaust denial around the world and here in this country. we want to take you on a tour of the united states holocaust memorial museum here in washington, d.c. more than 45 million people have visited this museum since it opened back in 1993. this institution serves as a reminder of what happens when society doesn t stand up to hate . would you please tell me your full name? david blitzer. that s my dad, david blitzer. he survived the holocaust, met my mother. he recorded his personal, very powerful survival story for future generations. i m from the name of the city of always
survivors of the holocaust still live with the horrors. the holocaust remains one of the greatest crimes against humanity. in europe, nazis set out to kill as many jews as possible. they murdered all four of my grandparents and forced my parents into slave labor and external e external nation camps. ignorance fueled them. eight decades later, it s horrifying to see a rise in anti-semitism and holocaust denial around the world and here in this country. we want to take you on a tour of the united states holocaust memorial museum here in washington, d.c. more than 45 million people have visited this museum since it opened back in 1993. this institution serves as a
when people walk down this bridge over here, what do you want them to think? well, we re trying to give people a sense of the scope of the holocaust. the numbers are so large, so we re talking thousands of communities, and we re talking millions of people. the nazis set out to murder every jew in europe. they had lists estimating there were 11 million from ireland to turkey. they were going to kill them all. they eventually killed six million. that is just heart-breaking to think about those numbers. but to think that each one of those numbers is a man, woman or a child brutally slaughtered. for what? exactly. these are not statistics. these are individual lives, just like your parents and of course your grandparents. this is about families and people with a whole future before them.