Alliance club displays human loss
Al Stover / Reporting
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In front of the library, was a display of 606 flags. 600 of these flags are depicted in the image of the Star of David, while other six were of a pink triangle.
These flags represent the 6.6 million Jewish people, and homosexual men executed during the Holocaust.
In remembrance of the Holocaust National Days of Remembrance, The Alliance put up this flag display in front of the library.
According to the reader-boards on each side of the display, each individual flag symbolizes 10,000 deaths.
Clover Thompson, a second-year theater major and member of the Alliance Club, said Heather Keast came up with the idea for the display, suggesting the connection with the deaths of the Jewish people and the deaths of homosexual males during the Holocaust. "It commemorates a tragedy that should never be forgotten," Thompson said.
The board also displays other statistics, including prisoners of war, homosexual women, Romani, Jehovah Witnesses, people with disabilities. The total number of deaths during the holocaust are estimated to be between 11-17 million. The number of Americans killed in the last 10 American wars are only one-sixth this number.
Michaela Alden, a second-year student and biology major was just getting off of the bus when she stopped and looked at the display. She said she learned new facts from reading the display.
"Everyone knows that Jewish people died, but I didn't know that other people were persecuted," Alden said.
By the numbers:
People who were killed during the Holocaust
6 million Jewish men, women, and children
60,000 homosexual men
250,000 homosexual women, ascocial, and disabled persons
3 million Prisoners of War
1.5 million Romani
5,000 Jehovah's Witnesses
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