We raise up the voices of the remaining survivors so they can give their personal testimony one more time before they become too frail.
But poor at recognising the deep emotional impact such learning may cause us and our children.The other danger is that we try to police the narrative of the Holocaust and set boundaries on its interpretation. And all of this can take place in both conscious and unconscious ways.
In fact, they have become the same story because the Palestinians paid the price for Europe’s failures and the rest of the world’s indifference.What’s really offensive is the attempt to disconnect the relationship between these two peoples. A third of our people were destroyed along with their culture and heritage. Linking the … But none of us were left untouched whether we were alive then or born since. We have become sophisticated at teaching the facts of the Holocaust. And this is where the dangers of unprocessed Jewish trauma and the desire to control the narrative comes into view.The undeniable truth is that Palestinians are part of the post Holocaust story too. We engage with our neighbours at a community level and work to create a shared acceptance of the need to remember, and for some, atone.The greatest danger I see is the passing on of unprocessed trauma from one generation of Jews to the next.
Guerin began her career working for newspapers in Dublin such as the For decades it has occupied Palestinian Territories. This commentary by Orla Guerin on @BBCNews of Israeli soldiers visiting @yadvashem - the Holocaust memorial - is dishonest, damaging and obscene. The gas chambers and incinerators are gone but the consequences of the horror will continue to play out in the decades and even centuries to come. It was unnecessary, insensitive and particularly ugly in the days before Holocaust Memorial Day. You cannot run very fast with a flak jacket on but sometimes you have to wear one. Jews & friends who say antizionism is NOT antisemitismAs I become older I realise that the Holocaust is not over. Guerin joined the BBC in 1995. It certainly leaves no room for empathy when it comes to the Palestinians.This is the unbalanced, asymmetric tragedy of Israel/Palestine. Without them the jacket was about as much use as a white handkerchief. Our understanding of who we are as Jews, our place in the world, our politics, how others view us, even our theology, continues to be shaped, indeed defined, by the Holocaust.Just as with earlier major turning points of Jewish history – the destruction of the Second Temple in AD 70 or the expulsion from Spain in 1492 – the Holocaust changed everything. It should be taught. As we approach Holocaust Memorial Day, the Jewish community is within its rights to expect an apology.”Meanwhile, the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, Stephen Pollard, wrote an Op Ed in his paper that surpassed even his own impressive track record for “I cannot recall a more foul – sickening, indeed – report by any journalist, either in print or broadcast.”Later, the former BBC chairman Michael Grade and Danny Cohen, its former director of television, added to the criticism. She was based in Los Angeles from January 1996 and became the corporation's Southern Europe correspondent in July 1996 and was based in Rome until June 2000. All of which brings me to the BBC’s International Correspondent, Orla Guerin.