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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sedona, post: 9862708, member: 4438&quot;]Thank you, everyone. I greatly appreciate the thoughtful responses.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m not so naive as to think throwing them away will eliminate evil on the world (if it were only that easy…). We’ve had family members murdered in the Holocaust; others were tortured, but survived. I’ve personally visited not just a concentration camp, but also the Yad Vashem museum in Israel. If these were historically significant relics, the decision to donate them would’ve been easy. The Yad Vashem, for instance, has photos of murders in progress, shall we say, taken by the soldiers who did the atrocities. Many of the existing photos we have in the world today were taken by soldiers who were proud of what was going on. Photos should not be destroyed. They document an event, and each one is important.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few years ago I visited one of the major antique swap meets in Los Angeles. It was jarring to find a booth that sold 8x10 headshot photos (duplicates, of course) of prominent Nazis.&nbsp; While those original photos belong in a museum, I ask who would actually want an 8x10 glossy of a Nazi leader in their home? How much more so an authentic skull ring? I’ve seen enough of them online to know they are not particularly rare. Anyone curious as to what a skull ring looks like can look it up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unlike a photograph, or a journal, I do not believe there is anything to be learned from looking at these items.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m also the default family historian, and I have a ton of photos of long gone relatives, birth announcements from the 1930s, and my grandfather’s own WWII medals, etc. Believe me, I do preserve our family history, and have boxes and boxes to prove it.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I posted because I am not one to toss old memorabilia in the trash, and I value the opinions of like-minded people.</p><p><br /></p><p>This wasn’t memorabilia collected by anyone in my family, these items ended up in my house without my having any input into it, and there is no way to return them to the giver. I’m not fully committed to throwing them away, and I will check further to see if any museum wants them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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