Today, 27th January, is Holocaust Memorial Day 2013:
just another day...
"First They Came..."
(Pastor Martin Niemoller)
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Catholic.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.
www.hmd.org.uk
(Holocaust Memorial Day Trust)
"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
(Elie Wiesel)
"Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."
(Yehuda Bauer)
"To forget a holocaust is to kill twice."
(Elie Wiesel)
