Auschwitz

Auschwitz at 75: From Sorrow to Song

Auschwitz at 75: From Sorrow to Song

On the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz (Jan. 27), the time has come to turn the sorrow into song.

The Problem with (Mis)remembering the Holocaust: The Banality of Evil

The Problem with (Mis)remembering the Holocaust: The Banality of Evil

On the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, it is important to recognize that there is a very real human tendency to mis-remember the grave evils of history: to imagine that they happened in a different world; to think that those who perpetuated such evil, or those who scandalously remained silent and complicit, were somehow different kinds of people than we are.