We, Jews, have accused everyone for not preventing the Holocaust: the peoples of Germany who allowed the Nazis to come to power; the countries of Europe who allowed themselves to be run by the Nazis; the United States who didn’t destroy the railroad lines to the extermination camps by bombing them and who did not accept Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany; the Pope, who didn’t stand up for the Jews publicly; and many others. And we have rightly blamed them.
But we are afraid to acknowledge publicly that we might have been able to do much ourselves in preventing the Holocaust, but we didn’t. Such an acknowledgement is very important even now in order to “nip” the emergence of a new Holocaust “in the bud” – and to prevent it by our own actions. Continue reading “We have been looking for the roots of the Holocaust in an outside, hostile world, but we didn’t do anything to prevent it ourselves”