How Do We Remember Victims of Mass Murder? A Holocaust Survivor's Daughter on Honoring Her Family

Jan 27, 2020, 11:50 AM

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How to remember victims of mass murder who have no graves? For families whose members have survived genocide or other forms of mass murder, remembrance is private and visceral. They often have no body to bury or cremate. As a child, I was fascinated by funerary objects: Egyptian mummies and their grave gods, memorial candles in temples, churches, and home shrines, old tombstones in small-town American cemeteries.