Thread by @IjehudaB

Today is the international holocaust remembrance day. Exactly today 78 years ago my grandmother (Sarah) and grandfather (Albert) were freed from Auschwitz, where they lost their parents, aunts, uncles, 3 sisters and an infant child, my uncle Wolf. All murdered by the Nazis /1

When my father was born 5 years later, my grandparents named him Heinrich Wolf so that his murdered brother would be commemorated in his own name. My father died in 2016 & when my son Noam was born we decided to continue this tradition & give him the second name Wolf as well. /2

I think remembering the holocaust is important for all mankind, it needs to be a lesson for all of us about fascism, cruelty, de-humanisation and what it means to be human. I always use this day to tell my students about my family during the holocaust. Hoping it has an effect /3

Adorno said that the only point of education is to prevent the recurrence of Auschwitz and I tend to concur. We have to help our students develop empathy and morality. They need to learn how to fight injustices and defy authority and it's brutality. I love the quate from Denia /4

Rosen's diary: "Avenge their deaths! I plead you to erect a monument that will reach the heavens, so the entire world will see it, not a statue of marble or stone, but a tower of good deeds! For only such a memorial can guarantee a better future for you and your children.” /5end

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