2017年12月英语四级听力VOA慢速英语原文（二十三）

　　US Holocaust Museum Show Inspires Hungarian Art Students

　　A 1929 photo shows neighborhood boys in Bremen, Germany. It's part of a special exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum that inspired an art installation by Hungarian students studying anti-discrimination. (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of

　　At first look, the black-and-white photograph seems sweet and innocent. The image was taken in 1929 in Bremen, Germany. Nine neighborhood boys stand together. They are smiling as they lookat the camera.

　　But, the photograph is the start of a dark story that is part of a new exhibit. The show, called“Some Were Neighbors,” is at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

　　Many years after that photograph was taken, and after the end of World War II, one of the men in that old photo put it in the mail. He sent it and a letter to another man in the photo, seen standingwith a bicycle. The man with a bicycle was Jewish. During World War II, Nazis murdered hismother. Later, he became a rabbi.

　　In the letter, the other man explained that he had worked as a Nazi guard at Germany’s Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. But, he wrote, he “never touched a Jew.”

　　The rabbi wrote back to the sender of the letter.

　　He said, “What I wanted to hear...was how he felt about his job. Did he think that killing Jews was the proper thing to do?”

　　He never got an answer.

　　The questions the rabbi asked the guard are central to the “Some Were Neighbors” exhibit. Millions of ordinary people saw the crimes of the Holocaust. They saw the crimes take place in citysquares, in stores and schools, in the countryside and other places. The Nazis found people allacross Europe who willing to take part in their crimes.

　　“Some Were Neighbors” explores what moves people to behave certain ways in difficult situations. The exhibit challenges viewers to understand a dark period of history. It also examines theimportance of social responsibility.

　　Zsuzsanna Kozák runs the Visual World Foundation in Budapest, Hungary. The non-profitorganization works to support peace through video and media literacy. Last year, Kozák and othereducators gathered at the U.S. museum for an international conference on Holocaust education.

　　The museum organized the conference with UNESCO. The conference brought together teams from 10 countries that have limited educational material on the Holocaust and other genocides. Thosecountries were Hungary, India, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, South Korea, Rwanda andTurkey.

　　Each country’s team left with a project plan. Kozák and the team from Hungary used the “SomeWere Neighbors” exhibit to create a traveling student art project. The project centered on theHolocaust. But, it aims to create a discussion about current tensions in their country, including alarge new border fence that blocked migrants from entering Hungary.

　　The anti-discrimination project is called “Your Decision.” Kozák’s team worked with educators fromsix Hungarian schools. The students were from the very young to college age. The studentsexplored ideas of tolerance – or accepting difference.

　　Each group studied pieces of the “Some Were Neighbors” exhibit, such as a film clip of a Holocaust-era public shaming, or the Bremen neighborhood boys’ photo. Each group was asked to make artcommunicating the ideas they had studied.

　　The students’ works were displayed at an exhibit last week in Budapest at the Canadian embassy.

　　Teenagers from a Jewish school in Budapest made a three-dimensional copy of the Bremenneighborhood boys’ photograph. They separated the man who received the letter and another boyfrom the rest of the group.

　　Zsuzsanna Kozák was born in 1974. She recalled not learning much about World War II history inschool. “There is such a cultural silence,” she said.

　　Peter Fredlake directs the Holocaust museum’s teacher education program. He said the “SomeWere Neighbors” exhibit tries to change people’s understanding of what the Holocaust was.

　　The Hungarian student art project, he said, “pushes back against the Holocaustnarrative Hungarians hear today, one that ignores personal responsibility and claims victimhood.”

　　Fredlake said that since the international conference, the other nine countries’ teams have alsobeen exploring new ways for talking about genocide.

　　The Hungarian students’ art project will be on display at the six participating schools starting inMay. It will then move on to sites like the International Jewish Youth Camp in Hungary and to agallery in Austria.

　　Kozák said she hopes the art project will be seen in many places, for many years, becauseintolerance “is a universal challenge.”

　　Words in This Story

　　rabbi - n. a person who is trained to make decisions about what is lawful in Judaism

　　proper - adj. correct according to social or moral rules

　　ordinary - adj. not unusual, different, or special

　　challenge - v. to test the ability, skill, or strength of (someone or something)

　　literacy - n. knowledge that relates to a specified subject

　　tolerance - n. willingness to accept feelings, habits, or beliefs that are different from your own

　　narrative - n. a story that is told or written

　　genocide - n. the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or culturalgroup

　　gallery - n. a room or building in which people look at paintings, sculptures, etc.

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