This morning I introduced one of my nieces, a ten year old, to the horrors of the Holocaust for the first time. During a planned trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum we walked through Daniel’s Story – the exhibit directed toward children – and the Hall of Remembrance. When she didn’t feel comfortable going through the permanent exhibition with her parents, the two of us wandered around the National Mall talking about what she learned.
It was an important conversation for me and for her, and while I tread carefully on what details to share much of our talk centered around how Hitler intentionally separated people based on religion and other characteristics he felt were deviant (making a side connection to Harry Potter and Voldemort’s obsession with purebloods). Our conclusion was how ridiculous that assumption is because we are all, in the end, human beings.
This month’s Creative Collaboration looks at an image from S.Fell. Taken at the Baltimore Light City exhibition the image reflects the conversation from this morning. We are in the end all the same.
Shadows
by Priya Chhaya
I can’t see your face.
But I bet it has two eyes
A nose, and long fingers
Grasping.
Just like me.
We are but one of a kind.
All 7 billion of us
hearts minds souls
When we are cast through
light
There is nothing to divide us
My right foot to your right foot
My glass to your glass
Each of us human
Being. Just being.
...this is what comes next 