![]() ![]() In a sweeping new cover story that builds on his best-selling book How the Word Is Passed, Smith travels to Germany to better understand the country’s efforts to memorialize the atrocities of the Holocaust, such that German citizens are faced with the memory of its victims in everyday life. It is the very act of attempting to remember that becomes the most powerful memorial of all.” Questions of public memory-“specifically how people, communities, and nations should account for the crimes of their past”-animate the work of the Atlantic staff writer, author, and poet Clint Smith. It cannot be done, and yet we must try to honor those lives, and to account for this history, as best we can. ![]() No museum can bring back millions of people. No stone in the ground can make up for a life. “It is impossible for any memorial to slavery to capture its full horror, or for any memorial to the Holocaust to express the full humanity of the victims. ![]()
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