Tag: holocaust

But at least we aren’t living in a place where genocide happened to us. As a people, we got the benefit of a fresh start in a new country.

On Friday, Octo. 27, Spokane Civic Theatre is presenting a one night only reader’s theatre production of "I Never Saw Another Butterfly," a one-act play that uses the poetry and art produced in Terezin, Czechoslovakia between 1941 and 1945 as Nazi Germany transformed the town into a ghetto and transit camp, where thousands of Jewish people were transported to concentration camps and the furnaces of Aushwitz. 

A conversation I had recently raised a question that seems very relevant to our politically polarized, extremism-plagued times: Under what circumstances is arguing with a Holocaust denier a lost cause?

Carla Peperzak was 16 when the German occupation started in her native Holland in the spring of 1940. She was 18 when she first helped a family go into hiding.

I think some people deny the Holocaust because such denial fits their overall worldview, which is likely characterized by anti-Semitism and God knows what other forms of bigotry.

The day in memory of the Holocaust is both horrible and necessary. Our children only exist because their great granparents survived.

The Holocaust did not begin and end with the camps. Persecution existed long before and continued after.