I found this article while I was researching online today, and I thought it defined this website's goals perfectly. The very first sentence in this article states, "[t]aking the time to learn more about the past is one of the best ways to make sure that it isn't forgotten and that the mistakes of it aren't repeated in the future." This is the exact sentiment expressed in this website's name Never Forget Never Again. If you continue reading further, the article makes another interesting point. It explains, "[w]e can't erase the past, but turning a blind eye to it will only cause more problems down the road. Facing the horrors of the Holocaust is a part of life that we all need to accept as terrible, horrific, and all-too real." I think this last part is something everyone has faced in his or her lifetime. I know for me, facing the horrors is something that I have been doing with the interviews I have conducted for this website, but I will also face horrors in a class I am taking this year called Comparative Genocide. In this class, we will look at the Holocaust, the Rwandan Genocide, and other mass killings that have occurred. It will be difficult to sit in a class for seventy five minutes every day watching videos of people being killed and reading the horrible accounts of the survivors, but I know that through this process, I will be learning more about what happened. And as this article voices, the more we learn today, the better prepared we are to prevent something else from occurring tomorrow.
This article can be found on Hitler's Children Website at the following URL
http://www.hitlerschildren.com/article/1127-holocaust-survivor-stories#.UgKS-WRoTR4
This article can be found on Hitler's Children Website at the following URL
http://www.hitlerschildren.com/article/1127-holocaust-survivor-stories#.UgKS-WRoTR4