Common sense isn't.
(Most of the text below is taken from signs at the Memorial site)
HOLOCAUST MAHNMAL
DER KINDER
Röbel/Berlin | Whitwell, Tennessee
Deutschland | USA
Children's Holocaust Memorial
Never Doubt
that a
group of thoughtful, committed students
can:
"CHANGE THE WORLD - ONE CLASS AT A TIME".
As you enter this car,
WE ASK
THAT
YOU PAUSE AND REFLECT
ON THE
EVIL
OF
INTOLERANCE AND HATRED.
In 1998, the students, staff, and community of Whitwell Middle School
embarked on a study of the Holocaust.
These paper clips, a Norwegian symbol of resistance to the Nazi occupation,
were collected from all over the world and placed in this car
as a reminder of the tragic loss of 11,000,000 souls that occurred
during the Holocaust.
As you reflect on the horror of this tragedy,
we ask you to affirm the enduring spirit of those who survived.
With the dedication and vigilance of each person who
visits this Memorial an atrocity like this will never again occur.
IN THIS CAR
Diesel fumes and crackling wood
Cold steel tracks and nothing good
Mid the tears and burning eyes
Slam the door - hear their cries
Scorching iron of the wheels
They could not speak -
There were no deals
In the shadows they all stood -
Cold steel tracks and nothing good
On to Auschwitz, Treblinka, and hell
So very few were left to tell
Of that time we honor today
But we thank God -
There's more to say
For as we stand - united here
We honor them with every tear
For in this car is light and love
And God's own mercy from up above
We place this monument
On hallowed ground
For all to come and stand around
And touch the place where they once stood
Open the door - there's something good!
Judge Bob Moon
October 4, 2001
The luggage tags
in this suitcase
carry
Messages of
apology
To Anne Frank
From Students
In Germany
Now, as then, the face
Education and 
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Spread knowledge,
No one is an island
Believe in the power 
Take sides.
McFARLIN FIELD
AUDITORIUM
| Quote of the moment |
| More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between Governments. The once powerful malignant Nazi state is crumbling; the Japanese warlords are receiving in their homelands the retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl Harbor. But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough; we must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. FDR Speaks authorized edition of speeches, 1933-1945 (recordings of Franklin Roosevelt’s public addresses), side 12, undelivered address, Jefferson Day, given here by FDR, Jr. (April 13, 1945), ed. Henry Steele Commager, Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, Washington Records, Inc. (1960). In this last speech he planned to deliver (the day after his fatal stroke), FDR appealed to Americans to enter into the United Nations with the intent of never allowing the conditions which brought on two world wars to occur again. This was a ringing challenge to ignore the siren songs of neo-isolationists and to work whole heartedly in the international arena to settle disputes amicably. ~ |
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