On Holocaust Remembrance Day
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One year ago today, I wrote an essay entitled "There is a thin line between life and death:”
The Trump administration was seven days old, and Renee Good had 345 days left to live. Alex Pretti had 363 days.
Greg Bovino was not yet a household name.
None of these events had happened.
Yet, the die was cast.
Today is the 81st anniversary of a terrible discovery that was not a secret. There are never any secrets when it comes to killing and state violence. There is only ever indifference.
Indifference and denialism are the building blocks on which tragedy builds. They are the portal to the abyss.
One year has passed since I wrote this post, and let no person ever say that what has happened in Minnesota, California and Illinois could not be predicted.
That is a lie.
The truth is that what has happened could have been prevented, but as ever it was not because looking into the abyss is easier said than done. We comfort ourselves with stories about what can never happen at the expense of confronting what must be faced with the cost always being the same: misery.
I’ve written extensively about the Holocaust, and I am sharing some of my essays again here as a reminder of what happened, and the similarities to what is happening today in America:
Auschwitz: what is its meaning?
What is the meaning of this place? At some level, Auschwitz is imponderable. It simply overwhelms. My guide was Pawel, who was a radio journalist before coming to Auschwitz 16 years ago, to help humanity remember what happened here. I had been to Auschwitz once before in 2005, as part of the American delegation led by Vice President Cheney, which includ…
Majdanek cannot be denied
Lublin is a small Polish city a few hours from Warsaw with a beautiful old town — and a death camp that sits on its outskirts.
I pledged to be an activist for justice after my mother responded to my asking why our neighborhood grocer and his wife, Freddy and Sonia, had blue numbers on their arms. I was a young child then and 75 now. I follow the Old Testament “justice, justice that we must pursue.” From Isiah. It is why I am a Jew who abhors what the Israeli government continues to do. It is not the way to achieve peace and certainty not just. I grew up among Holocaust survivors and stories of antisemitism in the US. My husband is African American and our adult son is biracial. I am very well versed in injustice.
Trump, Himmler...I mean Miller...etc. are laying the groundwork for another horrific event that will have its own "remembrance day" 50 years from now. It is the job of every good American to do everything they can to stop them.