An Open Letter to My Fellow Parents on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Human nature makes us want to turn away, to forget, but we can't. Not ever. We must acknowledge that humankind, as unfathomable as it is, really is capable of inflicting the most disgusting and indescribable pain, humiliation, and slaughter on one another.
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Sometimes when I look at my son, my heart bleeds at the thought of other moms, Jewish moms, who were ripped from their homes and whose children were pulled from their arms, stripped of everything, including their dignity, and placed, like cattle into holding areas where the literal fate of their life rested on which group they had been separated into.