Holocaust remembrances ring differently for many this year, in the aftermath of the Hamas terror attack.
“It is not the Holocaust,” says Richard Hirschhaut of the American Jewish Committee, “but there are very clear connective threads that remind us of the Holocaust because of the experience of October 7th – a pogrom really.”
Hirschhaut says those threads include Jews hiding in safe rooms, parents being separated from children, and victims being mutilated then killed.
“The sort of evil,” he say, “that was perpetrated upon the Jewish people and millions of other innocents during the Holocaust is not a distant memory.”
Which is why, Hirschhaut says, Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024 is even more poignant than usual.
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Article URL : https://www.npr.org/2024/01/27/1227156540/international-holocaust-remembrance-day-rings-differently-this-year