Yesterday was Yom haShoah, the remembrance day for the Holocaust

Holocaust lessons stated anew: Services emphasize preserving memory

I confess that although I knew it was coming soon, I forgot the exact date. But I will never forget the millions killed by the Nazis and their collaborators. Tonight I'll light a candle for those who died, and those who survived--dwindling now, as age and death takes them one by one. But this article also talked of how those who came after, the legacy of hope that remained with each survivor, chose to remember their families' struggles each year anew.

'We will remember' in Hebrew in Nizkhor. We should never forget the martyrdom of those who died due to such terrible hate and desire to rid the planet of those different. Genocide, unfortunately, has not been eradicated as a result of the Holocaust, but we are more aware of it, and nothing to the scale of Hitler's plan has surfaced yet. But we must have constant vigilance to protect the future, and in order to avoid repeating history, must remember those who died or underwent the horrors of the Holocaust.