This video depicts the horrors of the Holocaust, from the Jews of Vienna to the armbands that Jews were supposed to wear to the horrors of 4,000 Jews being confined to the walls of the Warsaw ghetto.
"The things I saw beggar description…The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where [there] were piled up 20 or 30 naked men, killed by starvation, [General] George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda.'" -President Dwight Eisenhower, formerly General Eisenhower, in a letter to General Marshall after visiting the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe." -Elie Wiesel, Author, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, and Holocaust Survivor
Written by Erin Parfet
