The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will bring the message of the Holocaust home to everyone who visits it, chairman Elie Wiesel assured the survivors and the massive gathering at the Congressional ceremony at the Capitol on the closing day. As the poet of the Holocaust, Wiesel spoke movingly when he accepted the symbolic key to the museum buildings from Vice President George Bush. Many lowered their heads in tears.
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