HOLOCAUST DAY - GIORNO DELLA MEMORIA - DAY OF REMEMBRANCE

Today we remember those awful years.
Not so much for the fact that numberless people were deported, killed, tortured.
But above all because so many of their so-called friends and neighbours betrayed them and denounced them to German Officers and to the resident collaborators.

A Jewish friend of mine, when asked how he felt about this Remembrance Day, said he didn't share the necessity of a special day .
He said there were not only 6 millions victims but 22 millions as the war claimed so many other lives: in addition to Jews, there were resistants, homosexuals, and so many others that did not fit into the idea of the Übermensch.

In his answer, I found a great generosity and humanity.

DEAR CONFUCIUS

I often find your sentences quite illuminating.

However, some of them clearly show that you wrote them many centuries ago.

For instance, this one that I chose at random (translated into English: Choose a job you like and you'll have never to work another day in your life).

I'd love that to be true nowadays.

But times change and, unfortunately, leaders are not being chosen any longer for their wisdom.
Neither for their far-sightedness.
Even less for the concern about the people they govern.

I wonder what sentences you would write in these "times of darkness and chaos"*

(*Quoted from Leonard Cohen)