Holocaust Remembrance May we never forget!

o Holocaust Remembrance – Anti-Defamation League o Holocaust Studies at Aish.org o Jewish Virtual Library Holocaust Exhibit o Shoah Foundation Institute at USC o United States Holocaust Memorial Museum o Yad Vashem.org o Yom HaShoah at Torah.org First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a socialist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist; Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew; Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak out for me. — Rev. Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984 (various versions of the quote are in circulation) Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.                         —Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Safe from the hand of tyranny? Don’t be so sure.  If you or a family member happened to be in any of the following categories, you would have been a target for Nazi extermination! — Afro-Germans — alcoholics — anarchists — Belarusians — bums — communists — criminals — Czechs — deserters — the disfigured — dissenting clergymen — enemies of the state — foreign forced laborers — freemasons — hobos — the homeless — homosexuals — interracial couples — Jehovah’s Witnesses — Jewish sympathizers — Jews — Marxists — members of the resistance — the mentally ill — persons of mixed-raced heritage — persons with Asiatic features — persons with disabilities — Poles — political enemies — POWs — prostitutes — race defilers — religious dissidents — the Rom (Gypsies) — Seventh-day Adventists — Slavs — socialists — Soviets — Ukrainians — vagrants