April 11, Rick Halperin, director of the SMU Dallas Human Rights Program, for a piece remembering the murderous campaign of Hitler and the Nazis in Europe against Jews and others 80 years ago. Published in History News Network: https://bit.ly/2OG4WNU
We’ve got a lot on our collective plates and minds, coping with a pandemic and the frustrating partisan politics that continue to mire progress.
It would be natural for us at this time to embrace the rites of Spring and avoid the haunting historical memories and anniversaries of the Holocaust that began to occur 80 years ago in Europe, and which continued beyond the end of World War II in 1945.
Even as we are solemnly reminded each April to “Never Forget.”