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In 2004, I worked on the series ‘Auschwitz: The Nazis & The Final Solution’ for the 60th anniversary of the liberation. The trauma of that awful place is unfathomable, even as you sift the vast evidence. It’s there in front of you, yet you still can’t begin to comprehend.
Even though we can’t possibly know what it was like, as Elie Wiesel wrote, we should try to understand. Speaking of the sense of duty he personally felt, he said: “For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living...
“He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would not only be dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
So if you don’t know about this period of history, I’d encourage you to make it your duty to find out and help keep that collective memory alive. Take the time. It’s important, and it’s the only way we’ll stop anything like it ever happening again.
