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![]() ![]() On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the six million Jews who were systematically murdered along with our 11.5 million brothers and sisters who share this sad history. This is another lesson that all nations should strive for “Never again.” “We have hemmed in,” was the response to those concerns. Fellow politicians were worried about him getting into power. 10 years ago, I came upon the history of Hitler’s rise. Walking through the exhibits at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum during a visit to Washington, D.C. The term “Never again” has become a rallying cry against the Holocaust and serves as a warning to prevent future atrocities and as a reminder that we need to be mindful and vigilant that power structures don’t fall into deceit and evil. I grew up around people who were survivors, but they didn’t share with me their personal stories of the horrors they experienced. Jews have lived with centuries of episodic persecution it’s part of our history. Yes, they were also escaping oppression, but nothing like the Holocaust. I did not have family who faced the genocide directly, since my family emigrated to the United States a generation or two before. The sophisticated propaganda campaign had a profound effect on the German people and proved to be the gateway to the horrific genocide of historic proportions that occurred during World War II. Hitler harnessed the concept and convinced ethnic Germans that they were the superior race. What does “unpure” mean? It was the main driver of Aryan race propaganda, which is a legacy of American slave-owning racist ideology. There were others, such as trade unionists, members of the Baha’i Faith, Catholics, Protestants, Socialists and others whom Hitler considered “unpure.” LGBTQIA+ people, the mentally or physically disabled, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Freemasons, People of Color, leftists, and dissidents made up the majority of the non-Jews who were also murdered. The largest groups that Hitler targeted were Jews, Slavs, and Romani people. ![]() Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the day when we stop to remember the Holocaust, in which as many as 17.5 million people were systematically tortured and murdered by the Nazi regime between 1939–1945 throughout Europe. The collective that commemorates the Holocaust and its victims on January 27 is less universal than its international framework suggests-the day that reminds me of Auschwitz is different.For more than a century, philosopher George Santayana’s warning has been often repeated: “ Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The act demands a framework that may indeed be collective in character, but doesn’t necessarily have to be. Only those who allow themselves to be moved by an event can commemorate it only those who are really touched will remember. Diner, We Remember with Reverence and Love) We never forget these martyrs and that all mankind will remember them.“ (Cited in: Hasia R. “Jews the world gather in synagogues on the holiday of Tisha b’Av to commemorate the great calamities which befell our people in our past history and culminat in the tragic extermination of six million Jews in our day. Rabbi Manuel Saltzman once described the connection between these two events with the words, Before this haunting form of collective commemoration on Yom ha-Shoah was introduced, practicing Jews, particularly those in the US, used to commemorate the Holocaust on the ninth day of the month of Av, which is Tisha b’Av, the day of fasting that recalls the Destruction of the Temple. ![]()
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