TO NEVER FORGET

Scott Simon wrote, “The few survivors of the Holocaust have told their stories for seven decades. I’ve been blessed to meet a few, and every one of them, with camp serial numbers seared onto their arms, has said the only reason they can fathom as to why they were spared is to tell the world what happened and never forget. But their numbers are running low. Over the years, the world has said it’s not our fight and turned away from other genocides and mass slaughters – Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur and now perhaps Yemen and Syria.

A study conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany reported this week that 41 percent of Americans and 66 percent of millennials say they don’t know about the Auschwitz death camp where more than a million Jews and others, including Poles, Roma (gypsies) people and gays were executed. Forty-one percent of millennials believe 2 million or fewer Jews were killed in the Holocaust. It was 6 million. And 22 percent of millennials say they haven’t even heard of the Holocaust.

It’s hard to tell people to never forget when they haven’t heard.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC- 43 BC) Roman statesman and philosopher wrote, “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”

“But these things I have spoken to you, so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. These things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.” Jesus