The Feet That Never Walked in Shoes
by
Rebecca Frazer
Thousands and thousands of shoes: some small enough for little girls,
some big enough for grown men. Most were dark, giving the mound of
shoes a certain eeriness. I stared at the mound blankly for a moment,
wondering whose shoes these were and why they had been preserved in a
pile at this museum. But all too quickly, my mind began to grasp the
piercing truth of what these shoes had in common.
Their owners were murdered together.
I was thirteen when I visited the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum in Washington, D.C. It was a haunting, life-changing experience,
and I can still vaguely picture some of the displays and remember the
horror and indignation I felt as I walked through the museum halls. But
the display of shoes – thousands of shoes of Jewish people who had been
systematically murdered and stripped at a concentration camp in Poland –
will always be clear in my memory. One does not forget thousands of
shoes that were never worn out by pattering, walking, running feet.
Rebecca Frazer is a high school student, a pro-life activist, and a
Christian. She immensely enjoys writing and speaking, especially on
pro-life subjects. She also competes in team policy debate, and current
writes for a debate sourcebook company."
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