Remembrance and Repentance

<h3><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(18 18 18 1)>The Call to Remember and Memorialize the Holocaust</span></h3><p></p><h4><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(18 18 18 1)>Truly I say to you as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers you did it to me. (Matthew 25:40)</span></h4><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(18 18 18 0.75)>From the Introduction:</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(18 18 18 0.75)>Holocaust studies are very important. We are living in a time when the last Holocaust survivors the victims and eyewitnesses to the atrocity are dying out. Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism are on the rise and it's important for people to know what happened. - Rabbi Dr. Michael Schiffman Executive Director Chevra USA</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(18 18 18 0.75)>Christian anti-Semitism built the road that led to Auschwitz. In the Holocaust two thousand years of anti-Jewish replacement theology culminated in genocide. European Christianity sat as if bewitched in the cold darkness of indifference just outside a fiery circle of doom while the ovens roared and the smoke of six million innocent Jewish lives filled the skies over Europe.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(18 18 18 0.75)>What has changed since then?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(18 18 18 0.75)>More than seven decades after the extermination began Western Christianity still sits seemingly numb and in denial of any spiritual responsibility for its tragic failure to come to the aid of its Jewish neighbors as the Nazi monster consumed men women children grandparents and grandchildren. How? Why?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(18 18 18 0.75)>The Holocaust demands a reply. Now as the last survivors of that generation begin to fade it is time for us to acknowledge culpability and take positive action to root out Christian anti-Semitism. This book is about remembering what happened in the past understanding how we contributed to the nightmare and learning from those mistakes to change the future.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(18 18 18 0.75)>About the Author</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(18 18 18 0.75)>Daniel Hennessy has studied under both Jewish and Christian teachers and received training as a small-group pastor at Hope Chapel Ministry Institute in Hermosa Beach CA. He did his initial research as a secondary school educator at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles CA then went on to be trained as a Holocaust Educator by staff from the International School of Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem and at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. by its resident staff and staff of the Anti-Defamation League in conjunction with the Archdiocese of Washington. He has also studied at and created educational programming for secondary students and faculty members at the Center for Holocaust Awareness and Information (CHAI) a part of the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester (NY). Hennessy is a past recipient of the Meyer A. Nathan Scholarship for Holocaust Education awarded by the Anti-Defamation League.</span></p><p></p><h4><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(18 18 18 1)>The Holocaust which established the standard for absolute evil is the universal heritage of all civilized people</span></h4><h4><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(18 18 18 1)>-Our Living Legacy The Survivors' Declaration</em></h4><p></p>