Donald W. Shriver, President Emeritus, Union Theological Seminary, Holocaust Remembrance Day, 4/24/17

When you visit the Yadvashem memorial to the Holocaust in Jerusalem, they give you a pin shaped in the form of the Hebrew word for “remember.”  There are two strong reasons for all of us to remember the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust: to honor the six million victims, and to warn each other that as humans we all are still  tempted to imitate such past crimes in our presentday.  We  truly remember the Holocaust of the Jewish people when we defend the lives of people in our own time who are targets of hatred either in our own hearts or in the policies of our governments.