by Jeremy Kay We think we can identify hate in our midst and confront it, but at what point can we recognize evil when it represents a real danger to our existence? In 1920, the German Workers Party, before it appended the National Socialists to its name, issued a proclamation. Number four: “Only those who are our fellow countrymen can become citizens. Only those who have German blood, regardless of creed, can be our countrymen. Hence, no Jew can be a countryman.” Here we have a glimpse of pure evil in its most embryonic state. It was a group that ...
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…In the dark I see shining toward mefaces of epitaphswailing their song.Graves of the whole vanished Jewish worldblossom in my one-man tent.And I pray:Be a father, a mother to me,a sister, a brother, my own children, body-kinreal as pain, from my own blood and skinbe my own dead, let me grasp and take in these destroyed millions… Who else, like me, hashis own nighttime death-garden?Memorial Poem, Jacob Glatstein One day there will be no more remaining Holocaust survivors. The world knew this logically; very soon, it will know it experientially. I once heard a Holocaust survivor speak about this concept ...
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