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Andrei Cherny @AndreiCherny
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1/ Look at these faces.

The clothes are a little different from ours. But they're not that different from us.

It's a mother and father. Aunt and uncle. Brothers and sisters.

It was the last photo they'd take together before they were all sent to concentration camps.
2/ Some of them perished. Others lived.

My grandmother was the girl in the top row. She and my three other grandparents all survived the camps.

On this #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay, I remember them.

And I give thanks that I was born in a land of freedom.
3/ But on #HolocaustRemembranceDay 2018, I'm thinking of others as well.

I'm thinking of a President who calls Neo-Nazis "very fine people."

Of politicians in both parties who seek to ban refugees fleeing death merely because of their religion.
4/ I'm thinking of a moment in time when lies are called truth and truth is silenced.

I'm thinking of our fellow Americans who live in fear of a knock at nighttime that treatens to rip mother and fathers from their children simply because they don't have the proper "documents."
5/ It can't happen again.

It won't happen again.

But we can do better.

And we must.
6/ End. For now...
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