I am appalled at the lack of education regarding the Holocaust and comparisons made to the Oct. 7 massacre. The murder of even one Jew is felt by all of us; the murder of 6 million by the Nazis cannot even be understood. The pogrom we witnessed in Israel is the closest mass murder of Jews for many Jews living today. I did not know my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins who died in Auschwitz, but I did grow up in a household of Holocaust survivors.
I believe many of us in both cases have and will experience PTSD. The trauma is overwhelming and will pass from one generation to another. My cousin’s husband in Israel, a police officer, was recently murdered while his young son watched. The ramifications of both are the same. I am dismayed at how many Jews, especially on the college campuses, know very little about the Shoah, the Holocaust. They do not understand and were not taught the terrible atrocities performed during the Holocaust by the Nazis and their supporters. Hitler wanted to murder all the Jews in the world; Hamas has the same intention.
