The Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville is premiering an exhibition devoted to the stories of Holocaust survivors living in Tennessee and the soldiers who liberated them. It was created by a UT professor who went across the state getting these stories, and after its time at the Frist the exhibit will be going on a statewide tour. This is an excellent idea, and I'm very glad that someone took the time to create this before this part of history is lost. Even if we're halfway around the world, people (especially children) need to be reminded that we are connected.
In somewhat unrelated-but-related news, it looks like Holocaust revisionist Ernst Zundel will be taking a nice long trip to a German jail cell, after being booted out of Canada by their Federal Court. Goodbye and good riddance. No one's a bigger believer in free speech than I am, but as the folks over at Nizkor can tell you, it doesn't go both ways with him. And frankly I'd rather not be on the same continent as the guy who wrote "The Hitler We Loved and Why." Incidentally, he spent a few years in the early-90s in Pigeon Forge, and his wife - who runs his lovely revisionist website while he's incarcerated - still lives there. Yuck.
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