‘You cannot look away’: opening of Amsterdam Holocaust museum an overdue reckoning with history

by Pilast

14 comments
  1. Good. The amount of Holocaust deniers is unfortunately growing.

  2. Just honest to god question. Holocaust isn’t even the worst atrocity there has been towards group of people.

    But why only its remembrance is so enforced ?

    Almost makes it look like other genocides and mass slaughters hardly matters. But that it happened towards Jews is so much worse than any other ? There ought to be such museums about other horrids mankind has made equally.

    edit: typo

  3. About time, now watch out for the anti Jewish savages who will rail against it.

  4. It seems like we’re looking away pretty hard these days…

  5. I watched the opening ceremony, it was very moving

  6. Surely the Holocaust has thought us all a costly lesson about the horrors born from nationalism and right-wing extremism. Am I right?

  7. Does this apply only to Jews or to other groups such as the disabled, romani people, political prisoners, etc.?

  8. Are there Memorials in other countries like France and GB too? Antisemitic violence was and still is Europe wide, not to say world wide.

  9. And yet here we are, looking away right now, so ironic it hurts.

  10. It’s good to have a Holocaust museum as a reminder the depths of human barbarity in the contemporary era. The 1940s is not even 100 years ago.

    We took a vow as a global collective, never again.

    So it bothers me when someone sees the photos of the emaciated victims of the Holocaust, and then turns a blind eye to what is going on in Palestine. Children dying in a state akin to those who suffered the Holocaust, such as Yazan Al-Kafarneh. How could we allow the mass murder of nearly 30,000 civilians, 12,000 of which were children? Have we learned nothing except to turn a blind eye to genocide, much like how the world turned a blind eye to the Nazi’s crimes against the Jews?

    Never again is now.

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