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The day in memory of the Holocaust is both horrible and necessary. Our children only exist because their great granparents survived.

The Holocaust did not begin and end with the camps. Persecution existed long before and continued after.

The Rev. Todd Eklof, pastor of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane, is organizing another Arms of Compassion event, this time at Temple Beth Shalom.

It ended almost seven decades ago and remaining survivors are few, which is why on Thursday the Spokane community paused to remember the horrors of the Holocaust and reflect upon the importance of educating students about it.

Tonight Temple Beth Shalom will honor Holocaust educators at its Yom HaShoah service. Yom HaShoah, (Holocaust Remembrance Day), is a time to commemorate the approximate six million Jews who died in the Holocaust. John Roth, founding director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights at …