Holocaust Remembrance Day

Read this well-written editorial about Holocaust Remembrance Day. It ends this way:

"Some years ago I visited Auschwitz. Imagine the unimaginable. Thousands of pairs of eyeglasses piled as high a house, thousands of suitcases with names written across the sides, the Jews thinking they were being taken to a work camp, the mountains of shoes, and in one room, neatly laid out, under a glass case, infant's clothing. I saw the ovens where Jews were cremated after being gassed. I didn't have to buy a postcard to remember forever what happened there. I think of Mirielle and Claude-Eve and wonder what kind of lives they might have had. I think about the doctors or artists or musicians they might have become. Think about a million children whose lives might have made the world a better place to live, or simply lived to have children of their own.Who needs to be reminded of such grief and loss? Who needs to be reminded? We all do. We need to remember what might have been were it not for the atrocity, and the humiliation and hatred of Jews. And mourn with me for their loss."

And yet there are still those who refuse to believe it and would rather not be reminded!