Legacy Matters

You are a Witness to History

Adriana Lukas muses on the new museum in Hungary dedicated to Nazism and Communism in House of Terror.

I believe that the best and only way to understand Communism and Nazism is through the lives of individuals who were affected by it not through a historical methodology or chronological exposition.
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Everyday life is as important to understanding of what happens as are historical milestones. It might help people realise how little it takes for the society to find itself in a grasp of a toxic ideology and how gradual the decline can be, how unnoticed the erosion of freedom, dignity and moral strength.

You too are a witness to history.  What will you say about the history you've seen to your children and your children's children?