There are so many moments in the past few days that have made me question so much. As people we need to take a hard look at this time in history and at what we are capable of. The sheer evil found in those sights seems to penetrate your very being, even now some 75 years past. I don't know if I will ever see things in quite the same lens. 4 million. 4 million lives were stolen from some ridiculous lie as a scapegoat. "Science" backed it up, people believed it wholeheartedly, and the worst part is they thought one day they would be praised for their actions. Those actions were voluntarily committing mass murder in one of the most devastating events of human history.
Looking at the Book of Records you can see the sheer amount of the people murdered, and just the one's we know of. There are some so wiped out that everyone and everything that knew their story was completely erased by the Nazis. That breaks my heart. Everybody wants to be remembered in some way or just know they had an impact. That was stolen from these people. At the Jewish Museum in Berlin, we saw this post card written by a young couple, Fritz and Ilse Wolffsky, on their way to Auschwitz. The letter simply read: Greetings to everyone! Don't forget us. Fritz Ilse Micki.
Don't forget us.. the impact that has. Because of that letter we won't, but how many have we forgotten? They all deserve remembrance and I hope in a way we can contribute to that. After all of this that hope is what is getting me through.
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