Holocaust Remembrance Day

This blog may seem a tad bit late. Seeing it is June. I was not aware that we could write a blog about it. However, after one dreary after noon, some idle time, and deciding to check my class-mates blogs, I was enlightened to that knowledge. So while it is a bit late, I'll make a blog of it now.

Holocaust Remembrance Day and the paper clip project. I was not well-aware of the former, but I have heard of the latter. What can one say about the holocaust? The horrific event which engineered the death of over 6 million Jews and other minorities. It is for certain a difficult topic to muse upon, though we are not shy to dwell upon it. The paper clip project was a monumental undertaking when one clearly thinks about it. Collecting millions of paperclips to represent the lives of those whom died to the hands of the Nazis.

Though it has been sometime since the Holocaust, it is still a sensitive subject for many. The survivors live to tell a tale of what happens when we destroy moral sentiment, when we ignore the guilt within us, and turn our hatred for our own inability toward another. But the paper clip project shows the flip side of the coin; When humans find it in themselves to bring out sympathy, compassion, and attempt to heal the wounds caused by their own. A tremendous effort was put into collecting these paper clips, so much so, that it moved the hearts and minds of many, to sway them into helping them also.

What can be said of this day, of the task which a community set out to do, in order to remember these tortured souls? Nothing words could ever suffice. Though the paper clip project did little to mend, or remedy the damage done. It serves to remind us that though there is much evil in the world, much racial inequality, there are those who stand against it; Those who look into the dark sins of our past, and hope for a better future.