General Dwight D. Eisenhower, when he liberated Europe’s concentration camps, insisted that journalists and photographers document the atrocities immediately, or, he predicted, the world would soon say they had never actually happened.
In a few years from now, the last survivors of the Holocaust will have disappeared, and the memory of what happened will fade even further.
The Holocaust was infinitely more than an attack on “dignity and human rights.” It was a unique crime: the attempt at the total extermination of an entire people by industrial means in supposedly civilized countries of the West.
