Holocaust Memorial Park Re-visit (6/18/2005)

Holocaust Memorial

Holocaust Memorial Park

The words in the picture:

BETWEEN 1933 AND 1945, THE NAZIS CREATED A REGIME OF HATE and victimization in Germany that eventually comsumed most of Europe.
Driven by racist beliefs, they killed as many as eleven million men, women and children in their quest to dominate Europe and to create a "pure and superior" race. The Nazis singled out the Jews for total extermination - their very existence to be erased from history and memory. Before their defeat in 1945, the Nazi regime murdered six million Jews - more than half of Europe's Jewish population.


THOSE WHO HAVE PERISHED HAVE BEEN SILENCED FOREVER. Those who witnessed and survived the horrors carry with them the burden of memory.
Through there voices, we seek to comprehend the acts of inhumanity that can stem from the seeds of prejudice.

TO REMEMBER THEIR SUFFERING IS TO RECOGNIZE the danger and evil that are possible whenever one group persecutes another. As you walk this Freedom Trail pause here to reflect on the consequences of a world in which there is no freedom - a world in which basic human rights are not protected. And know that wherever prejudice, discrimination and victimization are tolerated, evil like the Holocaust can happen again.

Statement of Pastor Martin Niemoeller @ Holocaust Memorial