| Plans for a striking national monument next to the Palace of Westminster have been mired in disagreement for years.  Illustration by The New Yorker; Source photograph by Ben Stansall / AFP / Getty The story of the United Kingdom’s victory in the Second World War has been central to the nation’s identity for generations. But certain aspects of the narrative do not fit comfortably within a framework of triumph. “The murder of six million Jews—and the question of whether the British authorities could have done more to save them—complicates an otherwise ennobling story of the country’s heroic stand against Nazism, its finest hour,” Sam Knight writes, in a report from London about a years-long battle to install a memorial marking the Holocaust. The effort “has been beset by delays, legal challenges, rocketing costs, and the emotionally complicated spectacle of very old Holocaust survivors speaking both in favor and against it,” Knight writes—and it has ignited debates about what such a monument in the twenty-first century should strive to communicate. | 
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