18 Apr 2018

Holocaust Remembrance: Forgiveness overcomes hate

The National Socialist German Worker’s Party, led by Adolf Hitler, systematically exterminated between six and nine million European Jews in concentration camps throughout their regime beginning in 1933. By 1945, more than 11 million people in total are estimated to have been murdered by the Nazis. More than 70 years later, Osan Air Base remembers the lives of the Jewish people who perished under the brutal dictatorship.

30 Apr 2016

Commentary - Holocaust Days of Remembrance

Millions of people around the world have died as victims of the Holocaust or other genocides. When I hear the word “Holocaust” images of torture and death come to mind; I think of the concentration camps, camps where human beings were warehoused like cattle and treated like garbage. When I think of the word “Holocaust,” I think of the inhumanity that one group of people chose to enact against another group of people. For me, the word Holocaust has political meaning while genocide has religious meaning. Countless families have been affected, victimized or destroyed all in the name of political or religious differences.