There are many who would argue that there has only ever been one Holocaust - that is, the extermination of Jews by the Nazis.
All too sadly, there is probably now in 2006 no "ownership" in the term "Holocaust" if correctly used.
"As someone who lost practically his entire family to the Holocaust, I came to regard the Nazis’ systematic murder of Jews as the ultimate benchmark for mass murder. Any subsequent 20th-century genocides seemed merely sad reminders that the post-Holocaust pledge “Never again” was just an empty promise.
Tuol Sleng is Cambodia’s version of Auschwitz. I found visiting the current museum at the site not only a harrowing experience but an eye-opener about the similarities between the two collective tragedies".
So writes Tibor Krausz in this Ha'aretz article under the heading "First Person".
Read one man's journey.......here. Sobering is a word which comes to mind. And then we have the present situation in Dafur. So, "never again" really doesn't ring true anymore - if it ever did!
All too sadly, there is probably now in 2006 no "ownership" in the term "Holocaust" if correctly used.
"As someone who lost practically his entire family to the Holocaust, I came to regard the Nazis’ systematic murder of Jews as the ultimate benchmark for mass murder. Any subsequent 20th-century genocides seemed merely sad reminders that the post-Holocaust pledge “Never again” was just an empty promise.
Tuol Sleng is Cambodia’s version of Auschwitz. I found visiting the current museum at the site not only a harrowing experience but an eye-opener about the similarities between the two collective tragedies".
So writes Tibor Krausz in this Ha'aretz article under the heading "First Person".
Read one man's journey.......here. Sobering is a word which comes to mind. And then we have the present situation in Dafur. So, "never again" really doesn't ring true anymore - if it ever did!
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