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Maybe, though, if we know and can evoke within ourselves
some of the horror, it will give us the strength of heart to stand up for someone
else, even on a smaller scale, to spare someone in a less favorable position
pain, humiliation, degradation. There are so many times that we can help out
in our lives, without touching a situation of the magnitude of the Holocaust.
I think the way in which we can best pay our respects to the victims of the
Holocaust is to try to get to know some of their personal stories. I think it's
better when we see them, though, first and foremost as just like us, because
we're all the same. There's so much prejudice and racism out there and the
appearance of tolerance, full acceptance. We all have to work on that, reminding ourselves all of the time that we are no better than anyone else.
My next
visit to Buchenwald--I want to read as much as I can there, I want to absorb
as much as possible. I'm glad I am going to the same camp--because maybe I
remember some of the stories I read on the walls or captions at the museum
there and I will be able to pay a visit to someone I got to know there whose
life was cut short.
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