75 years ago, Auschwitz is liberated. The liberation came and the world would soon discover 11 million people were systematically murdered, including over half, about 6 million, who all had one thing in common, they were Jews. With the rise in Holocaust denial, revisionism, and minimization, it is important to remember the gravity of what happened to Jews. It is important for all those who were affected by this systematic bigotry and genocide.
The number of Jews, around 6 million, were murdered. It was about 2/3rds of the Jewish population of Europe and 1/3rd the worldwide population of Jews who ceased to live. The population prior to WWII was believed to be about 17 million; in 75 years, Jews are just now back to that number. For some perspective, imagine the entire population of Jews in the US...gone! There are about 6 million of us here, 2.2% of the total population. It might not seem a big percentage; it isn't, but it would mean no Schiff, Nadler, Sanders, and about 30 other members of Congress; never mind the effect it would have on just about every industry in the US.
The combined populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, and half of Montana...gone! Or the entire population of Maryland...gone! Or, the entire population of Missouri...gone! Or, the cities of Chicago and Los Angeles, gone!!
There is only one...ONE...country in the world, where Jews are a majority, Israel. It is also the only other country to have more than a million Jews within its borders, the other is the United States, where as mentioned above, we only make up 2.2% of the population. Over half of the entire Jewish population, worldwide, live in one of these two countries. Only seven countries have a population of less than half a million but above 100K Jews. Nineteen countries have between 10,000 and 100,000 Jews.
Hate crimes against Jews are on the rise. Anti-Semitism is flaring up, sometimes in the most unlikely of places. Anti-Semitism is a real form of bigotry, leveled against JEWS. Anti-Semitism is not dependent on anything other than a hate, dislike, or prejudice against JEWS.
Today, the world remembers the liberation of one of the worst factories of human genocide, but do they remember how it happened? WHY it happened? It was "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Seems many are still struggling with that "question."
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