Never forget.
I have the memory of the holocaust in my body for two reasons. I read and saw Art Spiegelman's Maus and Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List when I was 13.
And the words of my grandmother (who wasn't Jewish). 3 decades ago, she asked me to continue carrying the memory. And so I do.
I have the memory of the holocaust in my body for two reasons. I read and saw Art Spiegelman's Maus and Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List when I was 13.
And the words of my grandmother (who wasn't Jewish). 3 decades ago, she asked me to continue carrying the memory. And so I do.
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Everybody says “never forget”, and so we should not. Nobody seems willing to ask “Do you think it holds lessons for what is happening today?”
But yes, I often see people crying about the Shoah and congratulating themselves on horrible things. Blindness is unfortunately part of us.
"I did not know yet that they had burned in crematoria old people, sick people, women and children after having gassed them under the pretext that they were Jews, gypsies or resistance fighters... Horror, Horror."
But we don't have to be Jewish (or homosexual, or whatever lame excuse these torturers invented) to understand and pass on the unfathomable horror of what happened.
As my late grandmother wrote:
More than ever, let's not forget what propaganda and hatred do to people.
The fascists have only one destination: six feet underground.
I 1138% understand anger at this unfair economic system, but how can we forget where hatred towards one (or more) category of the population leads.