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Today is the day for the Jewish people to remember the 6 million Jewish people killed during the Holocaust.
At the same time there is a WAPO report saying:
Asked to identify what Auschwitz is, 41 percent of American adults as a whole and 66 percent of millennials could not come up with a correct response identifying it as a concentration camp or extermination camp.
if the numbers were 1/2 of that it would still be too startlingly high. We need to study this atrocity, educate the next generation, and do our best to ensure it is never repeated. Now with the rise in popularity and the publicity that those who would proudly wear a swastika are getting it is more important than ever to recall what those symbols mean. My son recently was able to go hear a holocaust survivor speak and it really moved him. Those opportunities are fading as that generation passes, but we MUST not let the memories fade. We owe them that.
So if you have a child, talk to them today. It is not an easy or fun topic to discuss, but it has to happen.
And for any of you on this board who are Jewish, or who might have family who were impacted, my prayers are with you. I will not forget, and I will try and not let others forget.
At the same time there is a WAPO report saying:
Asked to identify what Auschwitz is, 41 percent of American adults as a whole and 66 percent of millennials could not come up with a correct response identifying it as a concentration camp or extermination camp.
if the numbers were 1/2 of that it would still be too startlingly high. We need to study this atrocity, educate the next generation, and do our best to ensure it is never repeated. Now with the rise in popularity and the publicity that those who would proudly wear a swastika are getting it is more important than ever to recall what those symbols mean. My son recently was able to go hear a holocaust survivor speak and it really moved him. Those opportunities are fading as that generation passes, but we MUST not let the memories fade. We owe them that.
So if you have a child, talk to them today. It is not an easy or fun topic to discuss, but it has to happen.
And for any of you on this board who are Jewish, or who might have family who were impacted, my prayers are with you. I will not forget, and I will try and not let others forget.