Meggen Hackwith
Witness of Hope
Witness of Hope is a Sub-section of a traveling exhition of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The target audience for this exhibit is Americans, ages 15 to adult who were involoved in WWII or are relatives of people involved in the war. Often the only view portrayed of the Holocaust is the gruesome, heartless side of the terrible event, which in no way is to be ignored or made light-hearted. However, there were people with remendous courage who risked their lives to save strangers; these are the people highlighted in this exhibit. My personal interest in this topic originated two summers ago to a wonderful woman I met, Diet Eman and her statement, "Maybe it was your grandfather's plane I heard flying overhead that liberated me." Seeing her and hearing what she went though gave a face to the reason my grandfather suffered and gave it some justification. Her statement was great epiphany for e and I saw the circle of how God orchestrated this giant world and His purpose even in the worst of suffering.
