Holocaust Survivors Speak:

[Bite Size Vegan]

When Holocaust survivors speak, we should listen. In this video, survivors and their families share hard-earned lessons and shed light onto a deeper meaning of “Never Again.” Hitler’s Holocaust is one of the most iconic examples of human cruelty, systematic desensitization and social manipulation in human history. That such brutality could possibly take place in our modern world is a testament to the power of a lie repeated often enough. Humanity must learn from the horrors of our past so as not to repeat them time and again.

 

[Second Summer]

The part about the lesson from Holocaust being that this can and does happen elsewhere - that is my "favourite" part. To extrapolate on this a bit: The Nazis didn't invent the concentration camps - the Brits had used them in South Africa against the Boers, and the USSR had its gulags, the last of which apparently closed in the late 1980s. The genocide against the Jewish population in Europe was neither the first nor the last in history. And so on.

When you think of it that way, that the Holocaust is unfortunately not so unique even in exclusively human history, then it becomes a little bit easier to see that what humans are doing to animals is very similar.

 

[Bite Size Vegan]

The part about the lesson from Holocaust being that this can and does happen elsewhere - that is my "favourite" part. To extrapolate on this a bit: The Nazis didn't invent the concentration camps - the Brits had used them in South Africa against the Boers, and the USSR had its gulags, the last of which apparently closed in the late 1980s. The genocide against the Jewish population in Europe was neither the first nor the last in history. And so on.

When you think of it that way, that the Holocaust is unfortunately not so unique even in exclusively human history, then it becomes a little bit easier to see that what humans are doing to animals is very similar.

Very well put. And tragically true.