Letter
to the Holocaust Centre
Mr
Stephen D Smith
The Holocaust Centre
Beth Shalom
Laxton
Newark
Nottinghamshire
NG22 OPA
Dear
Mr Smith
I
often wonder what is the significance of the Holocaust to
non-Jews, and why do we want to spread news of the Holocaust
far and wide? What has the Imperial War Museum to do with
the Holocaust?
It
has been said that Holocaust education will prevent it from
happening again, but there are no millions of Jews left
in Europe for a Holocaust. Moreover, genocide activities
have been going on in the post-war period in Africa and
in Asia.
I
believe that the real significance of the six million Jews
who were killed by the Germans during the war is that these
people died as hostages for the free world. In 1939 Hitler
threatened that if World Jewry would embroil Germany in
another world war then he would kill all the Jews of Europe.
He thus held the Jews as hostages for the free world and
they should be remembered and honoured as such, not just
as victims of a genocide.
Naim
Dangoor
