In my last blog I discussed gun politics, but this next blog is about a long overdue remembrance of an event that has been many, many years in coming and, sadly, many who experienced it are not here to see it
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This week the European Union chose to officially commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day; this blog will be my thoughts about this long-overdue gesture.
Yellow badge Star of David called “Judenstern”. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In today’s world, many of the seminal events in not only American history, but also World history, are revised, to fit a certain perspective, mostly for sensationalism or to demonize a certain viewpoint.
However, let us think about the one event associated with World War II, which has been studied and remembered, but also categorically denied by elements of society mostly associated with the extreme.
When one chooses to study the Holocaust, you cannot look at it from any political viewpoint if you are civilized human being. You MUST remember that this is the greatest crime humanity has ever had to endure.
Auschwitz concentration camp, arrival of Hungarian Jews, Summer 1944 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
When the Nazis seized power on January 30, 1933, the world still had no idea of the horrors that lay just beneath the skin of National Socialism.
Adolf Hitler (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The world had accepted anti-semitism, particularly in Europe for centuries. It had lurked (and still lurks) in dark corners in every country for many years, but it was on that day a line was crossed.
The German people had willingly bought into the mania that was Hitler’s “hope and change” in the process this once great seat of learning was blind, deaf, and dumb to the horrors that would be committed in the name of its people.
I could continue for many pages describing the horrors endured by anyone who stood against the Nazi regime, but I know my words could never do it justice
I can only look at it through the eyes of an American youth who was taught to remember and never forget.
We are starting to see it happen all over again, if you look closely.
We learned about it in school but never in tragic detail and never in a way that our young minds could fully grasp the death and despair this tragedy caused.
The Holocaust is not just an event that only affected 6 million Jewish men, women, and children, it should be seen as an event that has shaped the world and should affect us all.
While I applaud the European Union’s decision, it should never have taken this long. Each year we lose more and more of those precious souls who lived through hell on earth.
We have monuments and museums throughout countries all over the world but to understand the impact journey to the camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Germany or to Yad Vashem in Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.
Main gate at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Think of the stories that were unfinished, the lives yet to be lived; that is the story of the Holocaust.
Yad Vashem Hall of Names (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
To the youth of this generation; I plead with you, ask anyone you can find.
Do your own research.
Learn.
Remember.
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