Tag: holocaust

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.

As aging Holocaust survivors gathered at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to celebrate its 20th anniversary last year, a question hung in the air:

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