'Our First Amendment rights are strong, as they should be, but...we must protect the facts. We all must — for a person cannot call oneself a Republican or a Democrat, a proud American, if the person is a Holocaust denier,' Gordon Sondland writes.
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is opening an exhibit that I am proud to be the lead underwriter for. “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away” is the most comprehensive exhibition on Auschwitz ever presented in North America. With the alarming rise inMy parents fled Germany during the Holocaust, escaping to Uruguay and then emigrating to Washington state, where I was born in the 1950s. Antisemitism in America is at the highest level I have seen in my lifetime, and the numbers agree.
Genocide Watch defines the first stage of genocide as “classification,” the division of “us” and “them.” There is something that feels commonplace about this stereotyping, maybe even harmless to some. But genocides all over the globe began this way. An important word, perhaps the most important, in the steps leading to mass murder is “normal.” To organize the killing of 6 million Jews, it was not just leaders greasing the machinery of war, but the people believing their lies — normal, ordinary people. They were doctors and teachers, factory workers and business owners.
As knowledge of the Holocaust diminishes with every generation, the importance of this cannot be overstated. In a recent poll, two-thirds of U.S. millennials could not identify what Auschwitz is. In Europe, another poll found that one-third of the 7,000 respondents across seven countries knew “just a little or nothing at all” about the Holocaust.
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