Last month we had ‘Holocaust Memorial Day’.
Why do Jews never really acknowledge the “others” who were gassed, shot, or in other ways ‘terminated’ by the Nazis in the Second World War? Why are they re-writing history as if the Holocaust was only a Jewish thing?
The genocide extended beyond the Jews, and a total of 15 million were estimated to have been ‘terminated’, of which 6 million were Jewish. Nearly two thirds of those executed were not Jewish. Who’s really counting, as even one person being terminated for being born in the ‘wrong’ ethnic group is horrific, but who’s there wailing for the “others” and demanding memorial days?
The Romanies and those from Poland probably suffered the most outrageous ethnic cleansing looking at the percentage of their population that were rounded up and executed. Who wails for them?
What about the lower caste Germans, those born with defects, the children with faces that didn’t fit. Who wails for them?
When the tsunami hit and instantly wiped out 250,000 souls, we cared about all of them. We didn’t pick just one ethnic or religious group to be shocked about, and not give a toss about the ‘others’ did we?. Well, yes, for a while we were pre-occupied with holidaying nationals from ‘our’ countries. But that was only really in case we knew someone who knew someone. Once the full horror of the devastation unfolded we didn’t pick a particular colour of orphaned child to feel sorry for. When the cameras showed never ending kilometre after kilometre of devastation, or when the satellite before and after pictures showed there was no after, we didn’t ask about the religion of the families now gone forever. We grieved for them all.
And so it should be with the holocaust. All people should be affected and ashamed of this awful era. The grieving should be for all the victims, not just a selected number of them. The “others” were not an inconsequential collection of nobodys to be forgotten. Even more so if they were so efficiently ‘cleansed’ that they have nobody left to remember them.
Let the memory of those who perished needlessly at the hands of the Nazis not discriminate for or against any of the victims.
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