You know the Holocaust?

Then why are we still alive?

There's a pattern here.

Now, what have kids done?

And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Remember my grandmother's holocaust ring?

It was in the paper not on the front page.

I mean, picture this really picture this.

In World War I, American Gls were among the many thousands killed by deadly gas in the trenches of Europe.

I feel this is the most significant issue to tackle.

I didn't know they give out rings at the holocaust.

Most of us were groomed not only on images of nuclear catastrophe, but also on images and knowledge of the Holocaust.

You watched the movie.

Certainly for parents, the death of a child is no less than a holocaust.

There's a museum, of course, on the Mall in Washington, right next to Lincoln and Jefferson.

So I had a very inventive teacher, a Pakistani Muslim, who wanted to teach us about this.

One would have thought that anti Semitism died forever with the Holocaust but it did not. There are those who deny that the Holocaust ever took place, or that it did in its all too well documented manner.

And the Holocaust culture that we have in this country makes Americans, sort of, more prone to, I think, want to bring Never Again to life.

In 1976, I was asked to design a children's memorial museum in a Holocaust museum in Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, which you see here the campus.

Since then, the world has moved forward, partly as a result of what happened with the Holocaust, and people's concern about the rights of individuals within territories where they need protection, partly because of what we saw in Rwanda, partly because of what we saw in Bosnia.

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man, when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

Yad Vashem decided to rebuild completely the historic museum because now Washington was built the Holocaust Museum in Washington and that museum is so much more comprehensive in terms of information.

And that truth is, or was, in the 20th century, that while we were beginning to develop endangered species movements, we didn't have an endangered people's movement.

To me, it was immensely reassuring that the presiding spirit of this little Methodist college in upstate South Carolina was a Holocaust survivor from Central Europe.

looking at the community that I had grown up in, which was a community in Belgium, all Holocaust survivors, and in my community, there were two groups those who didn't die, and those who came back to life.

Anti Semitism is disgusting in whatever form it arises. This is true also for other kinds of group hatred, but the Holocaust makes anti Semitism unique, because it is an emotion complicit in the near annihilation of an entire people.