History of Sorts

Never Again are two words that are easily said.

Though, do we mean them? Or are we just saying them to make ourselves feel better?

Recently, I was called a “genocide junkie.” I didn’t judge the person who said it; I could understand where they were coming from. But I disagree—they are wrong. I write extensively about the Holocaust, but those posts don’t give me a high. The opposite is true. At times, the weight of the history affects me physically.

I, too, say “Never Again.” It is so easy to say. But we—myself included—must put our hearts behind those two words. Otherwise, “Never Again” becomes nothing more than a hollow slogan.

We have to avoid that of happening, because victims like Seraphina Rebecca van Moppes-Wolf and her daughter Margaretha Rebecca van Moppes.

Seraphina Rebecca van Moppes-Wolf was born in Watergraafsmeer, the Netherlands, on 20 December 1914. The Nazis murdered her at Auschwitz on 6 September 1944. She reached the age of 29 years.

Margaretha Rebecca van Moppes was born in Amsterdam on 7 July 1940. She was murdered at Auschwitz with her mother on 6 September 1944. She was four years old.

We have been saying Never Again for decades. Unfortunately, there have been genocides since, and it is starting to happen again. Let us make sure that Never Again means Never Again.

Source

https://www.joodsmonument.nl/en/page/197104/seraphina-rebecca-van-moppes-wolf