To individuals across this country and throughout the world whose families and friends were victims of the Holocaust. the opening of this memorial symbolizes an achievement of epic proportions. In recent weeks. much has been written about the museum. a stark building designed by James I. Freed. himself a refugee from Nazi Germany. A reporter for the Washington Post writes. "Inside. a world that was systematically destroyed by the Nazis is chillingly recaptured on film. in photographs and in tattered reminders of daily life." The Holocaust Museum tells the story in vivid detail. The exhibitions of personal photographs. prisoner uniforms. and other relics honor the memories of the millions persecuted by the Nazis.