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An entry from February 4, 2008

Shoes: Rose Tattoo by Vans

Location: CCSF, San Francisco

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As The World Stood Idly By

An entry from November 24, 2007

Location: Holocaust Memorial, San Francisco

"The Holocaust"
by George Segal

We will never forget the genocidal slaughter of six million Jews, including one and a half million children, in the Nazi Holocaust of 1933-1945.

We will never forget the cruel apathy of a world which allowed that Holocaust and the deliberate murder of millions of other people to happen.

We will never forget the martyrs of that evil abyss in human history. Nor will we forget those Jews and the righteous of all faiths who resisted and fought that evil.

In the memory of those martyrs and fighters, we pledge our lives to the creation of a world in which such evil and such apathy will not be tolerated.

It is with that memory and that resolve that we dedicate this memorial.

The Holocaust began with the passage of restrictive laws and a campaign of brutal anti-semitism, continued with forced confinement in ghettos and the mass deportation of Jews to concentration and death camps, and culminated in slave labor, mass executions and gas chambers.

The systematic slaughter of millions of Jews and other victims who perished was abetted by a world that stood idly by...