Helene Elliott: Museum of Tolerance provides powerful lesson for youth hockey team
LOS ANGELES - Everyone who visits the Holocaust exhibit at the Museum of Tolerance gets a passport, a small card imprinted with a photo of a child who was caught up in the Nazis' murderous anti-Semitism. Inserting the card into the slot of computers placed along the way brings up information about that child's life, community and location at key moments. It puts a human face on a dark, dehumanized era.
The last computer reveals the child's fate. Too often, the answer is heartbreaking.
If studying history was a dull and dusty concept to members of the Jr. Kings youth team who performed a Nazi salute and made anti-Semitic remarks in
