I had to read QB VII in honors history back when I was in high school. Gave me nightmares.
As a child I remember meeting various relatives, second and third degree cousins of my mom and dad, friends of my grandparents who bore the tattoos of the camps, when we visited my grandparents every Saturday in Brooklyn. Never forget.
Come sit by me shana maidel, you are five, six, seven, you are old enough to hear about the camps so when we are dead you will tell your children and your children will tell their children, and we will never be forgotten......
In high school we watched Justice at Nuremberg.
I don't think they teach this stuff anymore in today's curriculum. We will forget, we will be condemned to repeat it. G-d help us.
I recall the book, I read it too. I saw the movie Justice at Nuremburg as well.
The horror I found was that anyone could be at the brunt of such horror.
Sadly, dear Freya, there will ever be a time when a people will forget their humanity in their anger, and the seeds of a few people's hate will be sown across those fertile fields and reap such a bitter harvest yet again.
While we can, we must keep alive the ability to feel appropriate horror, the memory of what was done, and steer the children away from such actions and beliefs, that could lead to a repeat. We must steer government from policy that feeds the anger the hate grows so well in. We owe it to the legions of the dead, a small offering for their unimaginable suffering.
Remind people too, that it was not just Jews, but anyone the government's lackeys decided was a threat or any who voiced objections to the pogroms or other policy, so people never think "Oh, I'm not Jewish, it couldn't happen to me."
Let them realize that anyone or any group could be the next scapegoat dragged to the altar of the angry masses for sacrifice.
But some day, if it takes a million years, all too soon they will forget, and it will happen again.