This year, let's not just remember the Holocaust, but learn from it - opinion

Jerusalem Post - 02:07
This year, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, memory is not enough. We cannot afford to repeat the failure. No more words, we need action. 

Holocaust Remembrance Day returns this year. And with it, our national rituals.

Television schedules shift. A siren echoes through the streets. Candles are lit. 

Testimonies are heard. Tears are shed.

But when the words end, life resumes.

And our leaders return to complacency. As if nothing happened. As if nothing was learned.

As if we can afford another Holocaust, this time without trains, without ghettos, without yellow stars.

Auschwitz (credit: REUTERS)

Just technology, hate, nuclear ambition, and the illusion of security.

That’s where the failure lies.

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