Indescribable Horror--We Must Remember

Humans cruelty to one another is indescribable

Image courtesy of the United States Holocaust Museum

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Today is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. We must remember. And learn. And vow: Never again.

Each of us view events based on our own experiences and perceptions. As a teenager, I walked through Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. It took me almost five hours. I couldn’t speak until the next day.¹

As a teenager, I knew humans’s cruelty and ability to inflict pain on others. I knew that it defies Darwin’s theory of evolution. In my experience the propagation of the species and protecting our offspring and the viability of the species was not present or even a remote consideration. As a teenager, I knew that some humans are simply evil and don’t care about humanity or the other humans in our species. Our species. Our group. Our brothers and sisters. The ones we work with to survive. I’d studied and tried to understand why some humans can be so so evil with one another.²

I never learned why.

I still don’t understand why humans can be so evil.

Simply because I don’t understand evil, doesn’t mean I don’t know it.

I know that at least once a minute, someone is sexually assaulted in the USA. RAINN statics³ say that every 9 minutes a child is sexually assaulted in the US.

I know those are the minimum stats. It’s worse. I know it. ⁴

If people can rape a child, they are capable of anything.

Each of us views events based on our own experiences and perceptions.

On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, let us remember Anne Frank’s written words from July 15, 1944:

"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."

That’s my experience also. In spite of it all.

And, to my beloved survivors, keep healing, growing and developing your own uniquely beautiful life. In spite of it all.

We must remember, and never let the Holocaust happen again. Never again.

1. I can speak now about horror, but we must maintain a solemn reverence for this travesty, the Holocaust and annihilation of millions of souls.

2. In my teen years, I also studied extensively about other animals and species with whom share this planet. I couldn’t find any studies that found that other species recreationally torture and kill others of their same group, tribe or species.

3. Which I believe are egregiously low

4. For more on my perception of this evil and what I’ve experienced, please read, “Paperdolls & Cowboy Boots.”