To the Editor:
Regarding last week's ceremony at Auschwitz commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of that death camp by the Russians:
The sight and sound of the world's leaders shedding crocodile tears over a 60-year old genocide that their predecessors helped create, and then did nothing to prevent, while these same present-day leaders turn their backs on genocides present and everlasting, is nauseating beyond belief.
It is criminal that they should be allowed to absolve themselves of their own heinous deeds through such hypocritical acts. Have they no shame that they seek to wash away their own guilt with the blood of martyrs?
The only answer to the Holocaust -- to any and all crimes against man and nature -- is to ensure that peace and justice reign supreme throughout the universe. Anything else denigrates the sacrifices of the victims of such crimes. But as a nation and a species we are hurtling away from that goal with ever increasing speed and with every breath we take.
May we be spared any more such sickening spectacles as that which occurred at Auschwitz last week. And now, we must all get to work to make a world of peace and justice for which those millions suffered and died and for which millions more continue to be victimized. Let their sacrifices not be in vain.
Frances Hoenigswald
The author is an invoice clerk at the Biddle Law Library
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