Michael Berenbaum

[on young Jews who, as a memorial, are themselves wearing the numbers their relatives were forced to display by their Nazi captors] We are moving from lived memory to historical memory. We're at that transition, and this is sort of a brazen in-your-face way of bridging it. Physically, an act that destroyed their name and made them into a number would not be my first, second, or third choice, but it sure beats some of the other tattoos that young people are drawing on their skin. Show less «