This counts as progress. Michael Kimmelman in the Times:
BERGEN-BELSEN, Germany — Habbo Knoch, who runs the new Bergen-Belsen
Memorial at the former concentration camp, invited various scholars and
museum directors to a four-day conference here last week called
“Witnessing: Sites of Destruction and the Representation of the
Holocaust.” He asked a question one evening during a break: “Will
people in 20 years look back and say we built a museum that focuses on
Nazi genocide while Darfur was happening? Will they ask whether anyone
raised this issue?”…
Memorial at the former concentration camp, invited various scholars and
museum directors to a four-day conference here last week called
“Witnessing: Sites of Destruction and the Representation of the
Holocaust.” He asked a question one evening during a break: “Will
people in 20 years look back and say we built a museum that focuses on
Nazi genocide while Darfur was happening? Will they ask whether anyone
raised this issue?”…
The [German] farmers and villagers who had watched the prisoners go by afterward mostly claimed they knew nothing about it. Times
change. Some of the children of those farmers and villagers recall on
videotaped interviews the endless lines of walking dead. It was
impossible not to see what was plainly in front of them. Along these
lines, the constant television broadcasts during the conference of
grieving parents and wounded children in Gaza reminded a few conferees
of the emotions stirred up by video testimonies of Holocaust survivors
(there are dozens of these in the museum), and the comparison made
several scholars uneasy.
