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It is International Holocaust Day. It's important to remember that the Holoicaust began not with mass murder in the Soviet Union, or, later, gas chambers like Auschwitz. It began years before, with civilized people turning upon one another w/fear, sterotypes & dehumanization /1
Many folks don't know that the Nazis built gas chambers, in part, to make mass murder more efficient and less stressful - for the killers, that is. It was too time consuming and inefficient to shoot men, women and children one by one - like this Mother and child in Ukraine
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On this #HolocaustMemorialDay, these two books stand out. They are difficult to read, deeply painful and haunting. But history books are meant to teach and make us think - and these do
