This morning’s guest speaker was Ms. Naomi Katz and Mr. George Hellman of the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D. C.
A living memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Museum stimulates world leaders and citizens of the world to confront hatred, promote human dignity, prevent genocide, and strengthen democracy in the nations of the world.
A “public-private partnership”, the Museum, with federal support, is guaranteed permanence and “nationwide donors” make possible the Museum’s ‘educational activities and global outreach.’
The Museum promotes ‘constant vigilance’ of the ‘fragility of personal freedoms’ by providing a ‘history lesson’ to the world at large of the need to ‘preserve democratic values’. With the Museum’s unique power, authority, and authenticity of past events, it is able to teach ‘millions of people each year’ about the danger of ‘unchecked hatred and human genocide.’
During the Holocaust, ‘Raphael Lemin’, a Polish Jewish refugee, coined the word “genocide in 1944 to describe what was happening in German-occupied Europe’.
After the Holocaust, ‘in 1948, the United Nations adopted the Genocide Convention, which requires governments to undertake to prevent and punish the crime of genocide.’
‘Preventing and responding to genocide remains one of the world’s most perplexing problems. Genocide continues to plague the world from ‘Cambodia, the Balkans, Rwanda, and the Sudan.’ The Museum continues to respond to the atrocities and speak out for personal freedoms for all peoples of all nations of the world.
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