Never Again

Saturday marks the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz, revealing some of the worst horrors of the Holocaust. More than one million people were systematically murdered there and six million Jews were killed in total.

In 2005, as then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was threatening a second Holocaust by vowing to “wipe Israel off the map,” the United Nations voted to recognize January 27th as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

This year’s observation is especially poignant. More Jews were killed on October 7th than on any single day since the Holocaust.

When Holocaust memorials and observations take place, we naturally think about what happened in Germany under National Socialist Adolf Hitler. It’s almost impossible to imagine that raw evil.

Sadly, ignorance of the Holocaust is widespread among Western youth. Even more disturbing, there are significant numbers of young Americans, including many young Muslim immigrants, who are apologists for the Holocaust, and their chants suggest they want a second one.