The Holocaust Devil is in the details

Anyone who thinks anti-Semitism is a thing of the past should view some of the materials on the Web even today, that relate the blood libel accusations as if they are true. These Web sites are not intended as jokes. Consider also the massive industry of  Holocaust denial or insistence that it was someone else who did the killing. The Jedwabne Pogrom is an example. On July 10, 1941, the Jews of Jedwabne were murdered by their Polish neighbors, who took their homes and their property. But many Poles refuse to acknowledge the truth. They have nothing against kikes, they say, or else they say that in the first place, it was the Germans who killed the Jews, and in the second place, the Jews deserved it in the first. place.  And in any case, none of them will ever give up the Jewish property that they stole. Stalin is said to have observed that one dead person is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. The devil - the pain of the Holocaust is not in the masses of numbers, but in the individual stories, and in the hearbreak and frustration of knowing with certainty that  anti-Semitism is not a thing of the past. The demon still lives.

 

Consider this, from   Research on Lesser-Known Nazi Sites Is Now Public :

A German soldier who took part in the mass murder kept a diary that was found on his body by the Allies... . In it, he wrote of having volunteered as one of "15 men with strong nerves" asked to eliminate the Jews of Krupki. "All these had to be shot today," he wrote. The weather was gray and rainy, he observed.

The Jews had been told they were to be deported to work in Germany but as they were forced into a ditch, the reality of their fate became evident. Panic ensued. The soldier wrote that the guards had a hard time controlling the crowd.

"Ten shots rang out, ten Jews popped off," he wrote. "This continued until all were dispatched. Only a few of them kept their countenances. The children clung to their mothers, wives to their husbands. I won't forget this spectacle in a hurry...."

Consider also that even now, today, the world's foremost Holocaust denier will be speaking at a UN conference supposedly organized to combate racism.

 

Ami Isseroff