What the Holocaust Means Today
Today, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, dive into the essays that uncover hidden lessons, stories, and truths everyone should know.
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Over the past several months, we’ve published essays exploring the Holocaust from angles most people never see: the stories, the lessons, and the truths that go beyond dates and numbers. Some of these essays challenge conventional narratives, others uncover hidden patterns of survival, memory, and Jewish resilience.
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The USHMM made a grave error that I believe speaks to how and why The Holocaust is ignored, misrepresented and manipulated.
Rather than utilize that accurate comment by Governor Tim Walz comparing children in Minnesota in hiding to Anne Frank due to being profiled by the color of their skin, the language they speak, last names that don't sound American enough to the gun wielding xenophobic ICE thugs, etc, the museum chose to announce publicly that it was "offended" by such a comparison, therefore missing an opportunity to EDUCATE and ELUCIDATE the obvious parallels to Nazi occupied Europe and the treatment of the "other."
If the museum leadership cannot see what is obvious to any of us who have studied the Holocaust for any length of time, my strong feeling is that they should shut their doors. "Never Again" means "NEVER AGAIN" while it is happening - and it is happening in Minnesota. History is useful when we can learn from it, and when someone's ego is too offended to teach, they've lost the plot.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/e8699aa82c8f2690
Plenty of information that I was not aware of. For example, many Nazi collaborators have escaped to Australia after WWII. That's why there are so many hate mongers there. Another large community are the dependents of the Templers who were expelled from the German Colonies in then Palestine by the Brits during WWII for joining the Nazi party.
You should read the following book.
The Mascot
https://www.amazon.com/Mascot-Unraveling-Mystery-Fathers-Boyhood/dp/0452289947/ref
The book is about the Nazis from Lithuania and Latvia.
It also mentions the Nazi resorts for children and others.....
https://youtu.be/8tB01V-K-kI?si=Zb-_NqfQDBYAwW9H