Bobby Ingram - Thoughts from the Holocaust Museum

The Holocaust Memorial Museum includes a room filled with the shoes of Holocaust victims. They are piled on both sides of a walkway and represent both the large scale loss of human life and the individual stories of the men, women and children who perished. Bobby journaled these thoughts based on that image and allowed me to share it with all of you on the blog.

What do shoes tell you about a person? Do they hint at the roads once traveled or the obstacles once hiked? Do they demonstrate the perserverence it took to keep on moving? Can you depict the terrain once covered? Does the size of the shoe tell you how tall they once stood? Or is it simply a reminder of human growth? At the Holocaust Museum, the shoes don’t tell you their owners stories or their name, but rather they act as evidence for what hate can do and how they limit the future steps of humanity.