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You must watch Ken Burns’ PBS series on America and the Holocaust. This documentary about the Holocaust was made for our times. To understand the darker elements of America, it is required viewing.

Holocaust survivor and Spokane resident Carla Peperzak will join several Gonzaga University historians and representatives of Seattle’s Holocaust Center for Humanity to present “Remembering Our Past to Inform Our Future” tonight from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Hemmingson Ballroom.

Jewish tradition obligates us to remember. We believe that the memories of our lost loved ones are a blessing to us. When we say the name of someone who has died, we revive them in our memory, and we acknowledge their life.

I don't believe that they followed him entirely blindly--i.e., certainly propaganda and lies did their dirty work, but people made conscious choices. I mention this here and now as we are outraged by the latest evil anti-Semitic hate crime in our country at a synagogue in Pittsburgh while the community was celebrating Shabbat, a day of rest, peace, and contemplation.

On Monday, June 4, at 7:30 p.m., 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Nissan Krakinowski will be speaking at the Spokane Convention Center. The event is organized and sponsored by Chabad of Spokane. Krakinowski survived multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz and after the war immigrated to the United States. He and his brother …

But at least we aren’t living in a place where genocide happened to us. As a people, we got the benefit of a fresh start in a new country.