Why do we remember the Holocaust and its victims?
The Lasting Flame
Why do we remember the Holocaust and its victims?
Some things we remember because they were lovely. And some things we remember on purpose, gently and carefully, because forgetting them would be a kind of harm. The Holocaust is one of those things. So let's walk into it the way you'd walk into a quiet room — softly, and with respect.
The Holocaust happened in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. A government in Germany, led by the Nazis, decided that some people did not deserve to be treated as equals. Most of all, they targeted Jewish people — millions of ordinary families — along with many other groups they unfairly blamed and pushed aside.
