History will repeat itself if we don’t act now Ever feel like you are watching an instant replay? I don’t mean an instant replay in a “sportsball” game; I mean a replay of history.
In April, I decided to commemorate Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) by reading a scholarly and exhaustive history of the Holocaust by Martin Gilbert.
At the time I thought it would be a week or two of reading, but I was sorely mistaken. It is a very long work, extensively footnoted and painstakingly researched.
The length was not my issue. The book is filled with eyewitness testimony and officially documents details I never knew. My parents made sure I knew about the Holocaust as a child.