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"Today, the world must pause in anguished memory of the 11 million lives -- 6 million of them Jews -- killed by Hitler's Third Reich, and of the millions more who witnessed in agony as their loved ones perished.

"Disgustingly, ironically, as historians have with ever more detail and precision documented the horrors, Holocaust denial has become a growth industry."

-- editorial, New York Daily News, 2015-01-27

"In Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's memoirs, 'Crusade in Europe,' he wrote: 'I have never felt able to describe my emotional reactions when I first came face to face with indisputable evidence of Nazi brutality and ruthless disregard of every shred of decency... as soon as I returned to Patton's headquarters that evening I sent communications to both Washington and London, urging the two governments to send instantly to Germany a random group of newspaper editors and representative groups from the national legislatures. I felt that the evidence should be immediately placed before the American and British publics in a fashion that would leave no room for cynical doubt.'

"There is no doubt these atrocities occurred. The disturbing images can be located online. And yet, across America and Europe, Holocaust denials continue to grow. Last month, Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denier described as a Nazi by the Illinois Republican Party, won the Republican primary in that state's 3rd Congressional District, a heavily Democratic district that includes part of Chicago. The Illinois GOP continues to denounce him.

"And hand-in-hand with Holocaust denials, the U.S. saw a 57 percent rise in anti-Semitic incidents in 2017 over 2016 -- the largest increase ever in a single year. Similar increases in anti-Semitic acts have occurred in the U.K."

-- editorial, Richmond Times-Dispatch, 2018-04-10

"For the past 72 years our parents, the survivors, continue to raise an alarm. The symbols of evil, which they hoped were destroyed with the ideas that developed them, are being seen and used more frequently than ever before. The swastika appears with increasing frequency on public or religious buildings around the globe, and more and more of our youth are joining groups pledged to the ideals that were spouted in 1939, even though these so-called ideals nullify and distort everything our American Constitution and Bill of Rights represents.

"Lest, we consider as "pranks" the painting of Nazi symbols or other vicious pictures and remarks on buildings, or consider as innocent, the slurs cast out on groups different from us, survivors remind us that is exactly how the Holocaust began. The atrocity did not begin with the ovens in the concentration camps -- it ended there."

-- Rositta Kenigsberg, SunSentinal.com, 2017-04-24