An unusual Holocaust exhibit once came to our local university. It featured dozens and dozens of stamped envelopes mailed by folks who had been rounded up by the Nazis and were being processed before their departure for the camps. The envelopes were all addressed by hand to friends, family, and business associates.

The enclosed letters explained that the writers were being "resettled in the East" for their own "protection" from extremists who might otherwise harm them. Of course, their next stop was a place like Treblinka.

Every stamp had Hitler's profile on it.

The exhibit got to me like nothing else.