Shoah, and no lessons learned, 71 years ago today

It is Holocaust Rememberence day today here in England, and very shocking for me was the news today that anti-semitic hate crime is up by 40% from 2014 to 2015, it seems no lessons have been learnt, even though the Holocaust is talked about in schools,as with all types of Bullying it is learned from parents, no amount of education will help if a child hears hate for other people at home, as a child will believe what a parent says more than a Teacher. On Saturday night there was a Programme on t.v which was titled "the girl who forgave the Nazi's", a woman who has set up a centre in America to talk about forgiveness and letting go of the evil, and not letting it continue to hurt,her centre is called C.A.N.D.L.E.S Holocaust Museum,in Terra Haute , Indiana. Eva Kor publicly forgave Oskar Groening, who had worked as an accountant at Aushwitz Concentration camp, he did not directly take part in the killings, but did collect the clothes and valuables of the People who went into the Gas chambers.She is seeing talking to him privately during the trial, she asked him to speak out so the Holocaust Deniers would be proved wrong.He reaches up and kisses her, and she responds.She asks him to "Appeal to your fellow Nazi's, to make statements because , see we the survivors -they don't believes us, they say "oh we are Jews , we want to accomplish something" "But you-this is your good job, to make up for the bad job, are you feeling o.k" he then embraces her." Thank You". A private moment between two old people became a media sensation, she had not intended it as a publicity stunt,she had not intended it as anything but a private gesture about genuine forgiveness, and a request for his help in having the truth told, but as usual the media circus did not allow Oskar Groening any reply. Other survivors were really angry,one lady who had lost 50 members of her family, Susan Pollack, felt Eva threatened to undermine "the whole point of this historically important trial,how could you not think what this person had been tried for?" 49 survivors signed a petition against Eva, among them Leslie Kleinman who has lost all his family in the Holocaust.Eva had testified in the trial, she had been one of twins who had been experimented on by DR Mengeles. The twins were separated from their parents and two older sisters at the gate of the camp, by the Guards who were searching for twins for the "Doctor".