It's hard enough for adults to make sense
of such horrific events — just imagine how difficult it is for children to wrap their minds around concepts like violence, evil and death.
Since the end of the Holocaust, succeeding generations have striven to understand
how such a horrific event as the Holocaust could have taken place.
«It was
such a horrific event,» says environmental scientist Paul Lioy of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute in New Jersey, who was contacted by both the federal government and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to collect samples of the pulverized remains of the Twin Towers in the days following the attack.