In remembrance of the millions of people who perished during the Holocaust, April 23 and 24 are marked as Holocaust Remembrance days. The importance of keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive is to keep such events from happening again.

To our dismay nations have still continued to carry out genocide even after the horrifying truths of the Holocaust have been told.  Terror groups today, such as ISIS, have harmed more of their own people then their targeted enemies, creating a mass genocide.

“It keeps happening,” said Joanne Freimuth, foreign language teacher, “People need to wake up and realize that just because it is not happening to us does not mean that we could not be next.”

No one could defend the reasoning or the purpose for such catastrophic and brutal calamities.  These horrors and traumatizing events have brought even the strongest of survivors to silence, many taking vows to never speak of their harsh experiences again.

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me,” said Martin Niemöller a protestant pastor who spent seven years in a concentration camp for speaking out against Adolf Hitler.