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Dear Editor: After reading articles in the recent edition of Heritage and past issues, as well as national press coverage of the Uprooting Prejudice exhibit at HMREC, I couldn’t help but realize that many of the people commenting and criticizing HMREC for hosting the exhibit, were not aware that from the very beginning of its existence, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center supported programming on two tracks in order to fulfill its mission. On one track, they successfully brought Holocaust education to the local schools, trained teachers and made the general public aware of the history and horror of the systematic targeting, torture and murder of millions of Jews in Europe. To this day they continue to fulfill that function of their mission through their programs. On the second track, they use the lessons gleaned from the Holocaust to try to prevent it from ever happening again to Jews or an ....
ORLANDO (RNS) Comparing the magnitude of Shoah, the World War II extermination of European Jewry, to any other mass killings is always emotionally and intellectually fraught. The question is, are the lessons of the Holocaust unique to the Jewish people, or universal for humanity? Even the Roma, homosexuals and people with disabilities, who also died in the Nazi concentration camps, although in lesser numbers, are often relegated to a historical asterisk. Consider other grotesque mass killings in past centuries: Native Americans in the Western Hemisphere, Armenians, Ukrainians, Cambodians, Rwandans, farmers of southern Darfur, the Yazidis of Iraq, the Rohingya of Myanmar. Those victims, their survivors and descendants maintain that they, too, have a valid claim to the designation of genocide a term coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin to describe the Nazi murder of the Jews and at least to the lower-case designation of “holocaust.” ....
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