Having had the opportunity to browse through a text about the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum that is located in Jerusalem, it was natural for me to ask
MEMORY what?
memory of who?
MEMORY why?
memory of the Holocaust, the massacre that is made by the cruelest of animals, man, at the expense of his fellow here in town at that time was dominated by the madness of Hitler's Nazi and racist.
memory of the extermination of Jews in concentration camps
memory why? Why remember ?
Although it is true that history is a teacher of life, whether it is true that man is the only store that not only individually but also collectively, to remember means to transmit to posterity what has been so
not a repetition of such massacres.
Remembering is not just for looking back but also paying attention to what is happening around us today to see outbreaks of misery and injustice that are present in particular in the poorest areas of the world.
We can not continue to think that the misery and poverty of some areas of the world does not concern us or worse are inevitable because even the death and suffering of millions of children from starvation and diseases that could be cured with little sacrifice of the richest countries, are a form of holocaust perhaps less obvious but no less cruel and unjust.
Remembering is necessary because even today we hear talk of ethnic cleansing, the same that Hitler implemented against the Jews, gypsies and other human categories to assert the supremacy of the Aryan race with well-defined physical features: blue eyes, fair skin, blond hair, and above all intellectual and physical abilities to justify oppression and privilege on all the others.
History tells us the consequences of this mentality and its deleterious effects so remember to stress, talk about it is to read those signals present dangerous situations of injustice, oppression and exploitation of the weak and the latest in the world by powerful, that could fall into the same errors of the past .
If it is true that "experience" is the name men give to their mistakes and make clear that the memory of this historical experience should serve to avoid repeating the mistakes in this as much in the future. They are there for all outbreaks around the world are ready to flare up in genocides and massacres or already erupted without much tell the truth (for example, former Yugoslavia, Armenians, ethnic African etc ...) and without the realization that not only the attention attached to a surface and fast communication.
All these considerations bring us back to the great significance of the historical memory of the Holocaust, without which the world has no future worth living because it is in memory of the mistakes that man can avoid making the situation even though a superficial examination may appear different.
need and will always remember to read the signs of the times, to find out where lurks the savage barbarism that is called racism theories covered in the economic, political, social and religious.
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