Is it time for Jews to move on from the holocaust?

Answer 1

The Jews will "move on", as you say, from the Holocaust, when the following conditions are met:

1. When people stop denying or trivializing the Holocaust.

2. When people stop celebrating the Holocaust (and by the way, these are frequently the same people who deny the Holocaust).

3. When people stop hurling ridiculous accusations at Jews -- the accusations which served as the justification for the Holocaust, and thus may in the future serve as the basis for another Holocaust.

4. When people stop trying to excuse, justify, whitewash, "put in perspective", or morally equivocate the Holocaust -- in other words, when people stop defending the indefensible.

When these criteria are met, I would say the Holocaust can be put behind us.

Answer 2

They're trying. The problem is the Jews still have other enemies (most of whom are in the countries that surround Israel) that are trying to kill them for the same reason Hitler ordered the Holocaust -- just because they're Jews. If you want to understand what it is to be a Jew and what trials and persecutions they face, you'd have to spend a month or two living in Isreal and dealing with the day-to-day suicide bombings and attacks and seeing innocent children being maimed and killed, and for what? For having the gall to be Jewish?!?!! We're fairly insulated here in the U.S. because we've only suffered one large attack at the hands of people who want to kill us just because we're Americans (9/11). Imagine having to constantly look over your shoulder, every day of your life, wondering if some radical is going to blow you to kingdom come today. Makes it very difficult to forget a madman who rounded up 15,000,000 people you have a kinship with and put them to death...

Answer 3

The only problems with a lot of these things is that they eventually become a crutch rather than simply remembering.

"Well, I should get this because my ancestors were persecuted"

The holocaust is still relatively fresh, but other things that are older should be let go and simply remembered. As far as slavery, no one who was ever a slave is still alive. It's over. Move on and work to better it. Racism will exist as long as people ***** about people being racist.

Answer 4

No, it should always be remembered. It could happen again. None of us, jews, catholics, or protestants, should ever forget the horrible events leading to the holocaust and the holocaust itself.

May we never experience such an atrocity again.

Answer 5

You know what? I don't think anyone else gets to decide this but the Jews. When we decide it's time to move on...we will. But the time is not now. Anti-Jewishness is still rampant in the world (and I am not speaking of Israel; I'm speaking of Jews) and this could easily happen again as it already has in Darfur, in Serbia, etc.

Answer 6

I enjoyed reading stories and diaries about the Holocaust. I took it upon myself to learn more about that time era, but that Christopher Columbus bs....

Ugh! I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. Excuse me while I go spit this out...

Answer 7

I will echo what Nadine P said. It's up to **us** to decide this--and frankly, the wholesale slaughter of 6,000,000 of my fellow Jews, the extermination of whole communities in Europe, the desecration of synagogues, the unimaginable torture at the hands of the Nazis, the tattooed numbers that survivors burned into the skins of survivors **who are still living**--well, I hope you'll pardon us if we don't "move on" just yet.

Answer 8

Easy for you to say, very hard to do. They have "moved on" remarkably in my opinion. They have certainly made a lot better progress than I would have had this happened to me or my family.

Answer 9

that's a horrible thing to say. we all should remember the holocaust so that we don't have to repeat history.

Answer 10

That's like asking black people to move on from slavery. Both times were very traumatic in their histories and should be remembered, but not dwelled upon. =)