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| Murdered Toronto, ON January 2025 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
I lingered over this artifact at the Royal Ontario Museum yesterday, just one tiny element of an exhibit chronicling the befores, durings, and afters of humanity’s darkest chapter.
I tried to imagine the unimaginable, the deliberate extinction of a child because he or she, simply, was a Jew. I tried to imagine the broad-based hatred that led an entire society to this singular moment, that normalized it, institutionalized it, celebrated it.
Then I did the math. Not just one child gone. Entire generations, and those who would have followed. Lives. Communities. Histories. Futures. Gone.
Here at home, this morning dawns bitterly cold, likely not far removed from winters in the Polish countryside. The headlines scream their own form of bitterness, signs, perhaps, that the messages left behind by this unknown child - and millions more - have been ignored.
Hatred drives this. Hatred ensures the words, never again, have become mere words. Hatred shatters us all, victims and perpetrators. Hatred, seemingly, will never end.
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