1/ It's hard to find words that don't cheapen, belittle, glorify or dismiss what happened during the Holocaust (Shoah). It's also hard to find words that make sense of the numbers involved. 6 million Jewish people, murdered. Entire families, gone.
#HolocaustMemorialDay #Holocaust

2/ Their property, land, art, culture & achievements stolen and erased. Many are still fighting, 75 years later, to regain what was taken from them - physically and mentally. It is almost incomprehensible, yet it happened. But it didn't start or end

3/ Another 11 million people were murdered throughout the Holocaust era. Others targeted included the disabled, the LGBTQ+ community, Black people, Roma, Poles & other Slavic peoples, Jehovah’s Witnesses, prisoners of war & members of political opposition groups.
#genocide

4/ If we held a minute of silence for every known victim of the Nazis we would be silent for over 32 years.

5/ Sadly humanity didn't learn & there have been further genocides by a variety of groups claiming purity, religion or territory as their reasoning. So how do we respond to this? How do we try to be better?
#Darfur #Cambodia #Serbia #Rwanda #Rohingya