The best memorial to the attempted destruction of world Jewery would be to build/rebuild a usable Synagog/ day school in the Yeke tradition (prefferably in Israel) instead of that monstrosity IMO.
20 years from now, when we have gen. 4-5 past WWII...who will care?
Even the survivors that were children in WWII are rare these days (attrition)...
18 years ago I found (non Jewish) classmates joking about the holocoust.
one joke about how jews go to heaven...and the answer was "through smokestacks"...
I see it as a waste of the polish jew's time to make those not directly responsible feel sorry for what he/his family/community/people went through.
A history of Polish / Galicia Jewery:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of ... _in_Poland
(The villaige my family came from survived almost to the person, because they refused Soviet Citizenship, and were shipped out of harms way (relatively speaking) to Logging camps in Siberia.)
One question:
Arron, you posted the PBS link, any comments?
[urlhttp://www.youtube.com/watchv=Ai4te4daLZs&feature=related[/url] "My soul longs for the candle and the spices. If only you would pour me a cup of wine for Havdalah...My heart yearning, I shall lift up my eyes to g-d, who provides for my needs day and night."