I am currently spending six weeks as a Fulbright scholar at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. On my walks to the university to teach my classes, I always stop for a moment to pay respects at the multiple memorials embedded in the sidewalk.
I read the name on the plaque, note their relationships and calculate their age when they walked through their front door for the last time before being systematically murdered.
I simply cannot imagine the horror they felt at that moment.
Some six million Jews were sent to the ovens at concentration camps. But to say “six million” is somewhat of an abstraction. It is a number most of us cannot comprehend.
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