Hello, I'm Naorm Meninger.

I'm Aiton Weinstein.

And this is two nice Jewish boys.

Today, here in Israel, is Yom Ha Shoa, the National Holocaust Memorial Day.

It's hard to imagine the suffering, the agony, the hopelessness endured by the millions. It's hard to imagine a

world in which such atrocities are even possible. I often take my life for granted, my liberties,

my comforts, my loved ones. I think we all do for the most part. Who wants to imagine persecution

and genocide? Who wants to ruminate on death and destruction?

Nevertheless, it is important to remember.

But why?

Even if memory is a task or a duty,

it is one that we should answer to,

because if we do not remember,

we cannot value the things that we have,

and we are bound to lose them.

Yomashua, Israel's Holocaust Memorial Day, institutionalizes this idea.

Don't forget, lest it repeat itself.

We commemorate the dead to preserve the living, because we cherish life, life, not death.

The most important part of preventing the crimes of history from repeating themselves is learning from them, studying the past

and comparing it to the present. This is exactly what Professor Dina Perot does at the

Cantor Center for the study of contemporary European Jewry. Every year, on the eve of Yomashoa,

the Canter Center at Tel Aviv University

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