Vera Sharav: “Unless All of Us Resist, Never Again is Now”
Full Speech – Nuremberg, August 20, 2022
This speech in Nuremberg has gone viral, and here is part of
it:
I came to Nuremberg to provide
historical context to the current global threat confronting our civilization.
These past 2½ years have been especially stressful— as painful memories were
rekindled.
In 1941, I was 3½ when my family
was forced from our home in Romania & deported to Ukraine.
We were herded into a concentration
camp – essentially left to starve. Death was ever-present. My father died of
typhus when I was five.
In 1944, as the Final Solution was
being aggressively implemented, Romania retreated from its alliance with Nazi
Germany. The government permitted several hundred Jewish orphans under the age
of 12 to return to Romania. I was not an orphan; my mother lied to save my
life.
I boarded a cattle car train – the
same train that continued to transport Jews to the death camps – even as
Germany was losing the war.
Four years elapsed before I was
reunited with my mother.
. . .
If we are to avert another
Holocaust, we must identify ominous current parallels before they poison the
fabric of society.
Since the Nazi era, the study of
history & most of the humanities—including philosophy, religion, and ethics
— have been overshadowed by an emphasis on utilitarian science & technology.
As a result, few people recognize
foreboding similarities between current policies & those under the Nazi
regime.
By declaring a state of
emergency—in 1933 & in 2020, constitutionally protected personal freedom,
legal rights, and civil rights were swept aside. Repressive, discriminatory
decrees followed.
. . .
The media is silent – as it was
then.
The media broadcasts a single,
government-dictated narrative – just as it had under the Nazis. Strict
censorship silences opposing views.
In Nazi Germany few individuals
objected; those who did were imprisoned in concentration camps.
Today, doctors & scientists who
challenge the approved narrative are maligned; their reputations trashed. They
risk losing their license to practice as well as having their homes & workplace
raided by SWAT teams. . . .
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