How to imbue a sensitive child with a sense
of security and well-being, the comfort of knowing
their place in the world and the horizons open to
them in their future? The reassuring love of a
parent, the sense conveyed to a child of endurance
in the face of adversity, the confidence that they
have the attributes required to build upon through
exposure to education and societal norms. How
then do Jewish parents convey all of this to their
offspring in explaining that educated people had no
problem accepting a societal norm so adverse to the
enduring existence of Jews that their leaders were
enabled to destroy the lives of Jewish children just
like them, trusting and eager to learn, fully one and
a half million such children whose lives were
obliterated with full intention by those oblivious
to their humanity. The dilemma is to expose one's
questioning child to the reality of the Holocaust or
seek avoidance of any mention of the monstrous deed
that extinguished the lives of men, women and children
by the Nazi Third Reich under the eyes of the world.
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