Ladies and gents, three days ago my mom celebrated her 88th birthday. Eighty-one years ago today, 3 days after she turned 7, she was preparing for her first day of school in a suburb of Warsaw when Hitler began the Blitzkrieg and a war that killed tens of millions of people ....

... and wreaked so much hardship on tens of millions more. Among the dead were countless ancestors of mine, including a grandmother I would never meet, several uncles and aunts on my father& #39;s side and many, many more relatives. My father would spend three years, from age ...

.... 15-18, in a variety of concentrations camps, leaving him with physical and mental scars that he carried to his grave. I would like to ask you, if you happen to see a tweet or a Facebook post or a story about the anniversary of 9/1/39, not to gloss over it without ....

... stopping to think what it really meant, what really happened and why, and remind yourself that what occurred in Europe from 1939-45 can happen ANYWHERE, even in so-called advanced countries where you wouldn& #39;t think it possible, because too many human beings who are ...

.... born innocent are taught so quickly and easily to hate. Don& #39;t ever let your guard down and believe that what was cannot again be.