By Michael Caruso:
Yesterday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. At a time when antisemitism and extremism are both on the rise, remembering the atrocities of the Holocaust is essential. NPR, in this story, has collected the stories of Holocaust survivors themselves. But, as the UN Secretary-General said this week, "As fewer and fewer can bear direct witness, let us together pledge to always remember and make sure others never forget."
Videos of the survivors should be required viewing at every school.
ReplyDeleteAGREED!
ReplyDeleteWell said
ReplyDeleteThe Holocaust was not a high point in the annals of genocide but a continuation of it. Stalin systematically murdered millions of Kulaks in the 1930's by starving them to death. China, after 1948, instituted the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution which made Hitler's crimes seem bush league. Add to the list Cambodia, Rhwanda, and the current industrial massacre of Muslims in China. No one talks about these facts. As Napoleon so aptly noted, "history is a set of lies agreed upon." I would add a set of facts ignored.
ReplyDeleteI've always said the greatest legacy of the Nuremberg Trials (and Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson) is the permanent record left of Nazi atrocities
ReplyDelete11:14 I'm not quite sure why you try to diminish the Holocaust by pointing to other atrocities.
ReplyDeleteAnd this.
https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis-press-secretary-christina-pushaw-deletes-tweet-nazi-rally-stunt-1674478
11:05 am,
ReplyDeleteI'm not the 11:14 am poster, but I didn't understand their post to be a diminishing the Holocaust in any way. The reason Holocaust REMEMBERANCE Day is so important is in the title itself: the importance of remembering. We so often forget the past and, to quote the oft-repeated phrase, are doomed to repeat it (and we have). I would add to 11:14 am's list of past atrocities, the Armenian Genocide. In a 1939 statement describing his plan to destroy Poland, Hitler remarked: "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"
That is why we must never forget.