Erasing lessons from the Nazi Holocaust

JVL Introduction

Most of us understood that the essential lesson from the Nazi Holocaust and its devastating near destruction of European Jewry was “never again for anyone”.  For many decades organisations commemorating the Nazi Holocaust have, as the Ann Frank Trust still does, also looked at prejudice more widely, knowing where it can lead.

More recently, however, Holocaust Museums are drawing back from that position and concentrating only on the terrible Jewish experience.  We can also note that it was 2013 before Yad Vashem Named the first Arab as one of the righteous gentile, righteous among nations.  Yad Vashem has still not formally brought the Sultan of Morocco, operating from what was then a French colony under Vichy rule even though his stance saved arguably as manyas 250,000 Jews.

Here Jewish Voice for Peace raise serious concerns about the compliance of institutions, that really should know better, with the likely diktats of the Trump regime, not least in its removal of all programmes that support Diversity, Equality and Inclusion.  Compliance in advance is, they argue, enable the acceptance of fascism. That they have removed these important artefacts and more is chilling to say the least.

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This article was originally published by Facebook on Mon 6 Apr 2026. Read the original here.