Readings of the day

The Internet has evolved into an amazing tool to read the work of others we would not otherwise be able to get. As a child, buying the Sunday New York Times was a magical glimpse into a broader world of opinion and thought leadership. Today, it's all at our fingertips: A five-minute search can generate a robust short-list of opinion pieces that should keep the thoughtful among us reading until well after bedtime, and thinking and discussing long after that.

With that in mind, I tried to grab a snapshot of opinion columns and other publishings that I feel are representative of my thoughts and feelings on this day:

• A factory for death (Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe)
• Reliving a Horror To Decipher an Enigma (Thomas Weber, The Wall Street Journal)
• The legacy of Auschwitz (Samuel Pisar, Haaretz)
• Always, Darkness Visible (Aharon Applefeld, The New York Times)
• What have we learned? (Kyle Spector, GW Hatchet)
• The new promise of Poland (Tad Taube, Washington Times)
• The heart of darkness (Sir Ian Kershaw, Scotland on Sunday)
• Auschwitz anniversary in quotes (CNN International)
  

Other resources for learning more about the Holocaust include Yad Vashem, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Remember.org, Steven Spielberg's Visual History Foundation and The Holocaust Chronicle.

With that in mind, what are you reading today?