We Can't Allow This to Happen

Noah Klieger writes, "Shoah memory fading away. In generation or two, most people in the world won’t know about Holocaust":

"A few days before the Turkish flotilla raid, while Israelis still traveled to Turkey, I was at a local resort for a global sports writers’ convention. One day, while sitting in the dining room, a young waitress approached me, pointed at the number tattooed on my left arm, and asked: 'Is this your phone number?'
I smiled briefly and told her: 'No, this isn’t a phone number. It’s my number from Auschwitz.' She looked at me and said: 'Auschwitz? What is that?' I told her it was a German extermination camp.
The waitress left my table and rushed to talk to a colleague standing not too far away. I followed her with my gaze and saw that the friend had no idea what I was talking about. When the two turned to the head waiter, the same thing happened. He didn’t know.
Suddenly, I realized what I should have realized a long time ago. There are billions of people in the world who never heard of Auschwitz and the Holocaust, and who will never hear about it; they know nothing about the German plan to exterminate the Jewish people."

How utterly depressing and appalling, especially in this day and age when there's really no excuse for such ignorance.