"The world is full of strife - from the pandemic to the crisis happening in Ukraine - on remembrance days like Yom HaShoah, it is so important to stop and reflect. The call to action these survivors put forth today is not only one of remembrance, but one of action, a reminder that we do not have to be bystanders. We can all stand up in our own way and we can choose to not let our collective history repeat itself." -- Gideon Taylor, president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (quoted in "Survivors unite to deliver message on Holocaust remembrance" by Luis Andres Henao, Associated Press, 2022-04-27)
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Dachau was built in 1933.
Germany invaded Poland in 1939, at which time the death camps began in earnest - beginning with the disabled who had already been institutionalized.
What is going on in Russia (and Georgia, and Moldova) now, I wonder? Are we repeating this terrible history?