and there s also an increase in holocaust denial that these crazy people out there say it just was made up, there really was no holocaust. 6 million jews were not murdered by the nazis. that has sadly intensified in recent years. we thought it was really important to take a tour of the u.s. holocaust memorial museum here in washington which was created, what, 30 plus years ago by the u.s. government to remember what happened during the holocaust, because if we don t remember, god forbid, it could be repeated. so i took a tour with sarah bloomfield, the long-time museum director, who s an amazing woman. indeed all of the people who work at the museum are really amazing. hard working, dedicated, devoted. all those who were involved in founding and creating the museum deserve a lot of our credit. millions of people have toured the holocaust museum in washington, it s so important. so i wanted to take our viewers
on a tour. so i walked around. watch this exchange i had with sarah bloomfield, the museum director. we re speaking about the shoes, the shoes that are on exhibit at the museum. watch this. these are shoes, old shoes. this is one of our most iconic exhibits. if you visit these killing centers today, you see thousands upon thousands of shoes like this. the shoes of the victims. the germans took their shoes because they were going to reuse them and recycle them, if you will. but of course the victims would be killed. but this is what is left of those lives. these shoes are 80, 90 years old and they re here. the only surviving elements for all those people who were exterminated. this is the trace of the people before they were gassed. i think of those shoes.
Longtime network anchor talks about his family's Holocaust history, his views on Israel and AIPAC and lessons from US media coverage of the genocide during WWII
u.s. holocaust memorial museum here in washington, d.c., which was created 30 plus years ago by the u.s. government to remember that happened during the holocaust. if you don t remember god forbid it could be repeated. so i took a tour with sarah bloomfield. and all the people who work at the museum are amazing, really hard working, devoted. and all those involved in founding and creating the museum deserve a lot of credit. millions of people have turned the museum. it s really important. i wanted to take our viewers on a tour, and so i walked around. watch this exchange i had with sarah bloomfield, the museum director. we are speaking about the shoes, the shoes that are on the exhibit at the museum. watch this. these are shoes, old shoes? this is one of the most iconic visits.
to the founders of the museum going back a few decades, as sarah bloomfield, the executive director took me on this tour. grateful to her and everyone else who has been so deeply involved in making sure we never forget the atrocity that occurred during world war ii. it is so important, so timely, especially right now. and we know this is while you re having these conversations, you likely have your parents front of mind. what is that like? it s very powerful. my mom and dad came to this country after world war ii. they were both holocaust survivors. they met after the war. they got married and they were lucky enough to get visas to come to the united states, immigration visas under the 1948 displaced persons act which granted about 400,000 visas to displaced persons including a lot of holocaust survivors to come start a new life. they came to buffalo, new york, with no english, little money. they created a new life.