Never Again

NEVER AGAIN These two words were spoken to condemn fascism and can be found on Holocaust memorials.

On June 6, 1944, the armed forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in France, one of the most memorable missions in fighting evil since the U.S. declared war on Germany on December 11, 1941, landing in Europe on January 26, 1942. The troops fought fiercely and engaged in bitter battles to free the European nations from the powers of fanatical ideology. Germany surrendered, and the war ended on May 8, 2045 - too many paid the ultimate price.

When the liberators arrived at the concentration camps, they witnessed first-hand the horrific crimes committed by the Nazis against the Jewish population. For so many liberations came too late. Upon opening the camp gates, the soldiers greeted walking skeletons who suffered from malnutrition, diseases, and visible torture marks, aimlessly wandering within the barb-wired enclosures. The sites were so gruesome and incomprehensible for the young and seasoned soldiers alike that they vowed to document and expose the atrocities to the entire world.

After Jews were brutally forced out of their residences and transported to various concentration camps, the perpetrators began plundering all their possessions and destroying their homes and businesses. Once the Nazis occupied European countries and areas of the Soviet Union, their “first order of business” was to round up all Jews: women, children, men, young and old. Families were separated by gender and age and then transported to forced labor camps, where they were starved until death, or directly summoned to the gas chambers or shot. No words can ever describe the hellish treatment and suffering Jewish people and countless others endured between 1939 and 1945 by the SS of the Nazi regime and their collaborators. But it should not be forgotten, it is a reminder of what humans are capable of when minds are poisoned with corrupt and vile propaganda. For twelve long years, campaigns against Jews with never-ending lies and hatred dominated airwaves and printed materials.

Here we are in 2024 and antisemitism again is floating around the globe - it seems that this agenda was in the making for some time. Who are the organizers formulating the hate rhetoric and who is generously funding the polluting of minds, soliciting, and enticing the weak-minded people to carry out repulsive initiatives? Calling for the elimination of people and trying to silence the opposition with aggressive intimidating tactics, mirrors the dark past of Germany.

---------Babi Yar, a ravine in Kyiv, Ukraine was one of many mass extermination sites. On September 29 and 30, 1941, the Nazi death squads murdered more than 33,000 Jews in two days.--------

Closing words:

NEVER AGAIN, AND NEVER FORGET!