THE HOLOCAUST: 1933 - 1945

Six million were wiped off the face of the earth. And there is the danger that they will also be annihilated from our memories. Are they doomed to a two-fold annihilation?
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel,
Philosopher, Theologian and Teacher

Nobody wants to take the responsibility for the guilt. Nobody admits to guilt but instead points to his neighbor. Yet the guilt exists, there is no doubt about it. Even if there were no other guilt than that of 6,000,000 clay urns, the ashes of burnt Jews from all over Europe. And this guilt weighs heavily on the German people and on the German name and on all Christendom. These things happened in our world and in our name .....  I regard myself as guilty as any SS man.
Pastor Martin Niemoller,
Protestant Leader and Survivor of Dachau

I ask for one thing: you who will survive this era, do not forget. Forget neither the good men nor the evil. Gather together patiently the testimonies about those who have fallen. One of these days the present will be the past, and people will speak of "the great epoch" and of the nameless heroes who shaped history. I should like it to be known that there were no nameless heroes, that these were men, men who had names, faces, desires, and hopes, and that therefore the suffering of even the least among them was no smaller than the suffering of the foremost whose name endures in memory. I wish that they may always remain close to you, like acquaintances, like kinsmen, like yourselves.
A Christian Czech Resistance Fighter Executed by the Nazis