International Holocaust Remembrance Day January 27
Never Again! Never Forget! These words reverberate in the hearts and minds of the few holocaust survivors who are still with us today. But every year there are fewer holocaust survivors. One day there will not be one. Then the only stories we will have access to are their written and video testimonies filed away in library archives. When the Holocaust Survivors are gone, shall we gather together to read their stories? Shall we read about the terrors they faced in the Nazi German concentration camps and work camps? Shall we learn about the history of World War Two, Hitler's Final Solution, Anti-Semitism, Lebensraum, the Anschluss, Kristallnacht, the Nazi concepts of untermenschen, and the so-called Aryan race? Do you know what was the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact? The Munich Peace Agreement? Or will you, the younger generation simply shrug and dismiss the Holocaust and World War Two history as something of the past, and consider it irrelevant? I recall an ex...