To those deniers of the Holocaust:
There is no denying that these members of my husband Hershel’s family lives were taken too early.
My husband’s family in Poland before the Holocaust
There is no denying that none of them would ever enjoy growing old to delight in the joy of a grandchild.
My husband Hershel in a displacement Persons Camp 1946 Germany
There is no denying this little boy would be born homeless, live in a displaced persons camp, never knowing the love of a grandparent. An uncle. An aunt.
My husband’s mother’s sister and her baby only months before both were killed by the Nazis. Poland
There is no denying this little baby heinously ripped from its mother’s arms and thrown in front of a moving train was the action of pure hate.
There is no denying there existed something so evil in this world there was hate so vile it created an unimaginable evil.
But we must never forget.
There is no denying the Holocaust.
Ever.
Today we remember. As I do every single day.
Now, more than ever.
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Yes, we must remember the Holocaust “Now, more than ever”, because I believe we have been seeing the early warning signs here and around the world for years that this unfortunately can happen again. The way world opinion turned on Israel the day after the October 7th massacre, the Hamas support rallies on our campuses, the precipitous rise of antisemitism, the shameful actions of the United Nations and the way the US is trying to dictate Israel’s actions in defense of their existence – all this and more are terrifying events for Jews everywhere.
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Thank you for sharing the story of Herschel’s family. It is staggering to consider it is one of millions of such stories. Each is forever important and we – Jews and non-Jews – must never forget. Especially in these disturbing times. The echos are defining.
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I just read this post Sally. So sad that your husband’s family was decimated during the Holocaust. His story is just one of millions of stories that shared the pain of losing one’s family. Holocaust deniers drive the wound even deeper with their evil postulations. And now we see history repeating itself. Just last week we witnessed hundreds of Israel hating protesters claiming that 365 young people weren’t murdered at the NOVA music festival on October 7th. Zionist propaganda they claim, to curry the world’s sympathy. Evil denial once again of painful mass death, in many cases using social media to propagate the lies. We must never let up in refuting these lies and must always seek to educate the world as to what really happened. I guess we have to be grateful that social media didn’t exist during WWII. Had that been the case, the United States would likely never have seen its 170th birthday observation in 1946.
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Thank you for your thoughtful important remarks. It is hard to imagine if social media did exist during that time, and what the consequences would have been. Pretty dire I suspect.
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