Hello everyone,

Great article Peter.

One of the things that stuck me while reading your article.

We now know that besides being 100% evil...Hitler was also one
of the biggest liars in history.

He believed the bigger the lie...the more everyone would believe it.....
 
The truth behind the lie was too unbelievable for most people.

This evil dictator had average Germans believing just about anything as
long as his lies where BIG enough that no one could believe the
truths behind the lies.

May we stay vigilant and always take a stand against hatred and genocide ....
in any country

Thanks for remembering and sharing with us today Peter!

Jason

Achi Thomas,

Thanks for your kind words. You don't have to be a prophet to learn from history. A prophet by name sees the future and we mortals can only absorb and accumulate knowledge in order to insure that evil doesn't run rampant in this world of ours.

Guess what? That insurance depends on each and every one of us as individuals, groups, communities, religious affiliations and the list is endless. We as a whole have to safeguard this fragile world of ours for ourselves and future generations.

I appreciate your friendship, understanding and the work that you do within our adland community.

Shalom,

Peter

Hi Bill,

Thanks for your sincere comments on this very sensitive subject.

Those that deny the holocaust have their agendas for doing so. There is no logic or factual information to back up their allegations. They are trying to create an atmosphere of disbelief in truths that are documented and by so doing create havoc in the world.

You are so right about inventory of our conscience or the searching of our soul. There is a great difference between lip service and true belief. We have to look around us, not only in our communities and countries but globally because the world is getting smaller every day and what happens 15,000 miles away from you in this day and age can affect you directly.

When an injustice is being done we have to respond and not only give lip service to our "horror".

Shalom,

Peter

Hey Sam,

I would like to thank Anamaria for her great introduction. I learned a few things about myself that I didn't know up till now. :) In all my chats with Anamaria aside from the business we had to discuss there was always a vibe of humor throughout the chat. In addition to being a sweetheart she is also very funny. Thanks for being my friend Anamaria and you didn't let slip even once that you were preparing the intro. 

Steve, you wrote a great review and I thank you for it. One point though I'd like to take partial issue with. There is a degree of forgiveness in all of us for almost anything with the passing of time. But, there is no contradiction between forgiving and NOT FORGETTING. There was and is a lesson to be learned from the holocaust. There are many that can't forgive though the the majority have but we can not allow ourselves to forget. I thank you for your review and for being my friend.

Shalom,

Peter

Hey Judy,

The whole point of not forgetting is two fold. One is to honor and remember all those that were exterminated by the Nazis. The second is to learn from this tragedy and not allow anything like this to ever happen again.

So far the first is being observed every year on Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Day). I know there are many countries throughout the world that have memorials on that day in order to not forget.

Unfortunately the second reason is much more problematic. When we see the genocide or ethnic cleansing taking place in the world today and we stand by and do nothing about it shows that either we forgot or never absorbed and learned the lesson to begin with.

You hit the nail on the head with one word. Complacency. 9/11 is a very good example but I'll ask you a question Judy. 9/11 is a term that expresses the results of an act of terror due to the enormity of the attack but is it more important then poisonous gas being used on subway users in Japan? Or acts of terror in many other places in the world some large and some just killing a "few" people? What makes 9/11 more of a wake up call then all the other acts of terror before and after? Can it be because when it happens somewhere else it's a tragedy but when it happens at home it is a catastrophe? As you all know I am both a US and Israeli citizen and the only conclusion I can come up with is that one word again Complacency. As long as it was happening elsewhere it didn't affect us but now it hit at home. The war against terror became a major issue in the USA ever since c'os it finally hit here at home. And yet we are Complacent. Is complacent another word for forget??

Sorry for being so long winded but as you can see this is a topic that I feel very strongly about.

Shalom,

Peter