ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author remembers dozens of Holocaust diaries, the hundreds of survivor memoirs, and the thousands of pages of archival documents and artifacts. The span of years between 1988 and 1998 was a period of exhilarating and often agonizing memorial ferment in the United States, Europe, Israel, and South America. The author recalls watching on television Elie Wiesel’s April 1993 dedication speech for the opening of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, with President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton sitting behind him on the dais. In the next few years, he asks to serve on the jury for the American National September 11 Memorial and to serve as an academic advisor on the National September 11 Museum. The author asks to advise the Jewish community in Pittsburgh on how to commemorate the eleven victims of the deadly antisemitic attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue on October 27, 2018.
