Today is Holocaust Rememberance Day.  It is a day, a time, set aside for us to remember the victims of the Nazis.  I choose to remember all victims of the Nazis.   The Nazis murdered millions of people – Jews as well as Homosexual men, Gypsies, Slavs, Mentally Ill, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Political dissidents to name a few.  They were murdered simply because of who they were and what they believed.  I remember them today and promise to keep them in my mind and heart as I go through the year.

I have included the Pink Triangle because it was used to single out homosexual men by the Nazis during the Holocaust.  For more information about the Pink Triangle, click here.

Why is it important to remember? 

So it does not happen again. 

Because there are those who deny it ever occured. 

Because we need to become aware that genocide is occuring in the world as we speak. 

Because we need to speak out against intolerance in any of its forms.

“We are all different; because of that, each of us has something different and special to offer and each and every one of us can make a difference by not being indifferent.”

- Henry Friedman Chairman of the Holocaust Education Center, Washington.