International Holocaust Remembrance Day (established by the United Nations General Assembly) is January 27 andYom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, the United States, and other countries) is in April or May (in 2022 it s April 28).
She was not quite 11 when train convoys organized by a London stockbroker carried her and hundreds of other Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II.
âThe Holocaust is a harsh reminder of the consequences of unchecked hatred and the fragility of societies.â
Those words, spoken last week by Sara Bloomfield, director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, recall how absolutely and completely horrible people can become when a hate-filled, narcissistic leader convinces the masses to abandon humanity.
The hate is palpable to visitors of places like Auschwitz-Birkenou, even as comprehending the depths of barbarism is impossible.
When you have walked on the same road where hundreds of thousands of human beings emerged from boxcars so crowded that it was a challenge even to draw a breath, your heart aches trying to make any sense of the way one person can treat another.