Holocaust

Anti-semitism and prejudice has always followed Jews. In the folksong “National Brotherhood Week”, Tom Lehrer sings: Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics, And the Catholics hate the Protestants, And the Hindus hate the Moslems, And everybody hates the Jews. (1) Anti-Semitism was based not on the Jewish religion, but on what they considered the Jewish race. During the first half of the 20th century and particularly in the period between World War I and World War …

…We shouldn’t let it to happen again on such a large scale – not to Jews, not to any other ethnic group. We must confront the tragedy of the Holocaust. We need to know what’s bad and how to prevent it if we want to become better human beings. We need to learn the lessons that Holocaust has to teach us, and we need to remember the Holocaust, even though they are difficult memories.