“We remember Auschwitz and all that it symbolizes because we believe that, in spite of the past and its horrors, the world is worthy of salvation; and salvation, like redemption, can be found only in memory.”1 Elie Wiesel spoke these words in the German Reichstag in an address delivered on November 10, 1987, fifty years after the infamous Kristallnacht, when mobs infiltrating the streets of Nazi Germany destroyed Jewish property and helped propel Germany closer