On March 24, 2005, I visited the Museum of Tolerance to see Renee Firestone speak. Ms. Firestone is a Holocaust survivor who was forced to Auschwitz when she was sixteen years old, and was subsequently liberated from the internment/death camp at the age of twenty. Firestone grew up in Hungary, and lived what she considers ...
The Holocaust was a very horrific time for the Jewish people of Europe and the world. Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany at the time of the Holocaust and World War II, started the Holocaust which killed over 10 million people, including almost 6 million Jews. Adolf Hitler was very anti-Semitic, but Hitler alone could not ...
Wow. What an awesome movie. Hilary Swank stars as Erin Gruwell, an idealistic novice teacher in Long Beach, CA, in the early 90s. Erin can’t wait to tackle her first teaching assignment, despite warnings of how difficult it is by more experienced staff members. Erin’s class consists of several different ethnic groups–Latinos, African Americans, Asians, ...
Starting in 1991, 46 years after the Holocaust in Nazi Germany was revealed to the world, ethnic cleansing happened again in Bosnia. This was after people vowed for genocide to never happen again. Unfortunately, humanity had not changed. As George Santayana said, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The purpose ...
