On Yom HaSho’ah, We Must Remember Way More Than Six Million Jews Murdered In 12 Years

Truth be told, the Holocaust actually began in 1922 under Stalin in Soviet Russia and did not end until 1994 when the last Chief Rabbi of Aleppo, Syria left Aleppo. Too often, the Holocaust in the Soviet Union – including the “Doctor’s Plot”—is overlooked because Stalin fought as an Ally, and the Holocaust in the Middle East—including the razing of Jewish cemeteries and the Constantine Pogrom—is simply chalked up to Anti Semitism in the Arab and Arabized World. Until we recognize that the Holocaust in Europe did not end until the gulags were closed in 1960 and that the Holocaust in general did not end until October 1994, many more than half of American adults will be unaware of how many Jews really died in the Holocaust and how many Holocaust survivors there are.

Also, there were likely way more than 6,000,000 Jews—some of whom were not known and/or counted as Jews—murdered by the Nazis. Until we begin to remember the forgotten and count the uncounted and unknown Jewish victims—as well as the forgotten and uncounted gentile victims—of the Nazis, we can’t fully begin to remember Stalin’s forgotten, uncounted, and unknown Jewish victims or the Arabocentrists’ and Arabizationists’ forgotten, uncounted, and unknown victims.

If we forget to remember the way more than 6,000,000 Jewish victims as well as gentile victims of the Holocaust as well as the countless Jewish and gentile survivors whom were able to live to tell what they endured, may we be forgotten and left with nobody to tell about anything that we’ve endured—much of it quite small compared to what Holocaust victims and survivors endured (and what many survivors continue to endure—e.g., PTSD, loneliness due to having lost family members and other loved ones—including fellow survivors—over the years, poverty).