Tonight (April 27) marks the beginning of Yom HaShoah, a day to commemorate and remember the Holocaust, its victims, and its survivors. April is also Genocide Awareness Month.
During this time, we not only reflect on the horrors that humans are capable of inflicting on others but on the goodness that people are also capable of and the resilience of survivors to build new lives.
A few weeks ago, President Biden declared April 24 – May 1, 2022, as a week of observance of the Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust and called upon the people of the United States to observe this week to remember victims and survivors of the Holocaust.
Here is his full proclamation:
In addition, there are several people on campus who are children of Holocaust survivors and whose parents were interviewed for Steven Spielberg’s testimony project for the Shoah foundation.
The story of Buena Alcalay Pearlman, can be found on YouTube
Buena Alcalay Pearlman
The stories of Lola & Walter Kaufman can be found found on Google.
Lola and Walter Kaufman
There have been other genocides that have occurred in recent history against Armenians, Rwandans, Cambodians, and Bosnians. And, of course, in Ukraine today.
Here’s to hoping that “Never Again” can become the goal of all humankind.
