OPINION — I’ve written about so many special days and moments on our calendar, and yet I’ve never written about days that mark the memory of the Holocaust, such as the liberation of Auschwitz, which will be recalled on Jan. 27.
The Holocaust was familiar to me at an early age, as my parents had a kosher grocery store, and many of our customers were Holocaust survivors. It took no effort to see the tattooed serial numbers on our customers’ arms.
For this reason, and others, it is hard to fathom that some people question whether the Holocaust even happened. The Economist reports in a 2023 poll that 20% of young Americans (18-29) thought the Holocaust was a myth, with 30% unsure, while a survey from the Guardian reports a common perception that 2 million, not 6 million, Jews were killed in the Nazi camps.
