As I ponder a word to describe the reason why the Holocaust happened, i come up short. Unfathomable. Incomprehensible. Then I think, is there a why? Or are man’s inhumanities to man to perplexing to define in a simple term?
If I am unable to answer why, I am going to need to believe there is good in the world. The Catholics who hid Jewish children in orphanages. The zookeeper’s wife who concealed Jews amongst the animals. The businessman who strayed away from a profit to save 1,100 Jews. Yes, those righteous gentiles who stood up not watch the Holocaust happen without their intervention.
All peoples must stand up and say stop when injustice is done toward others. Dr. Halperin has created opportunities for us to understand and take the message never again back to our Dallas community. We must focus on the good in the world to combat injustices while dreaming for a day when peace will come to all.
Langston Hughes wrote, “ Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” I must cling to the same dream of hope Holocaust survivors clutched to throughout their torture. A hope to see their families again. A hope to see a new day. A hope for justice.
I realize why is answered in the next ioffense done to mankind that is stopped by someone who has learned from the past to make a better future.
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