An aspect of interpretation that is essential to telling the story of a tragedy and that the Holocaust Museum does beautifully is humanization of the history. Installations like the room of shoes or exhibits on the bales of human hair recovered from the camps can’t get close to communicating the actual number of the victims of the Holocaust, but the display of such personal items helps to understand that each one had a life. When the victims of the Holocaust can be fully comprehended as individual humans, the tragedy of losing just one of them is felt, let alone six million. One room has the walls covered in hundred photos taken in a village in Poland that was completely wiped out by the Holocaust. This exhibit would be impactful on its own, but it’s much more effective when combined with the digital aspect of the exhibit, that allows visitors to point a screen at a photo and learn the names and stories of the individuals pictured and who among them, if any, survived the Holocaust. These exhibits are impactful for the same reason the diary of Anne Frank became such an emblem of the memory of the Holocaust, though it does not list statistics and figures, give an explanation of the events of the time period and their causes, or describe the mechanism of the concentration and death camp system. It simply memorializes a bright young mind and all of its hopes, dreams, and possibilities lost to the Holocaust. Her story and that of nearly every person she immortalized in her diary was cut off by the Holocaust, and the reader can feel and mourn for those losses because her book gave them the chance to know and understand the people lost. It is impossible to comprehend the loss of six million strangers, but by helping visitors to know just a few victims of the tragedy, the Holocaust Museum helps its visitors to grieve for the whole of humanity that was lost.