The reason the Holocaust Memorial Museum decided against including
bales of human hair taken from the Nazi death camps was that, unlike
shoes and suitcases and eyeglasses, which are artifacts of the victims,
hair is an actual part of the bodies of the slain.
    For the same reason, they elected to eschew displaying the "medical
specimens"--preserved fragments of the bodies of people murdered in
"medical experiments"--that also are available.
 
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