I originally posted this on March 31, 2012. The fact that years later it is an even bigger is a testament to how important it is to continue to remember, tell the story and honor and remember the lost.
I found the following paragraph on the Anti-Defamation League website regarding the topic of Holocaust denial:
“Holocaust denial, which its propagandists misrepresent as “historical revisionism,” has become one of the most important vehicles for contemporary anti-Semitism. It is the invention of a collection of long-time anti-Semites and apologists for Hitler…” http://www.adl.org/holocaust/introduction.asp
This is a significant problem facing the worldwide Jewish community. The logic is simple. You can’t fight the battle to make sure it never happens again if you have to fight the battle of whether or not it happened in the first place. Hitler’s Germany persecuted the Jews of Europe in systematic fashion. In my upcoming book, “Jew Face: A story of love and heroism in Nazi occupied Holland”, I show how the Nazis destroyed most of the Dutch Jewish community in incremental fashion, ultimately murdering 104,000 of what was a community of close to 150,000 people. The concept of Holocaust denial can only be seen as ultimately having the same goal. The evidence is clear. The photographs are there, the names are there, the personal accounts have been given. To anyone other than the avid anti-Semite, there is no doubt that these atrocities took place. It is my hope that by getting the attention of as many people as possible, I am helping increase awareness of what took place. For if we allow acts of barbarism to be forgotten, we increase the chances of them happening again and again. Not only to the Jewish people, but to innocents all over the world.
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