An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Yom HaShoah
“Nazism was defeated, but anti-Semitism still lives. The gases evaporated, but the poisons remained,” Peres said. “There are still Holocaust deniers, skinheads and hotheads, filled with a deep hatred, ready to kill in the name of racial supremacy.
“Anti-Semitism is a disease…. It’s hard to understand why the greatest tyrants, such as the Nazi Hitler, the Bolshevik Stalin, or the Persian Ahmadinejad chose Jews as the target of their hatred, their insanity, their violence,” Peres continued.
“It could be their hatred for the Jewish people is because of our powerful spirit. Those who seek to break our spirit are themselves broken,” he concluded.
“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.” ~ Adolf Hitler
In 1939, there were approximately 9,297,000 Jews in 21 countries. At the end of World War II, there 3,937,000 left.
Today, I’d like to honor those who were lost, those who survived, and those who continue to carry their message….NEVER FORGET!
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
