We are living proof of the adage of George Santayana and Winston Churchill , “those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”. Today marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz/Birkenau NAZI death camps, designated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Watch the United Nations program commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day.
We commit on this day to remember the six million Jews, and many others, who were murdered in the name of racism and antisemitism, but we no longer remember. The last witnesses, survivors and victims to one of the most massive acts of genocide in history are all but gone. In the misinformation age, truth is buried in and indistinguishable from lie. It takes active effort to remember the Holocaust a mere 80 years later.