Thoughts from Father Jim O'Driscoll

I was very moved by my visit to the Holocaust Memorial in Washington DC but I cannot express how profound the experience of visiting Yad Vashem was for me. Our guide, Gilad Peled, made the tour of the museum not only person but he shared a profound amount of information.

The Children’s Memorial was the most moving. The darkness with the memorial flames glittering like stars in an empty night sky intensified the recital of the names and ages of the children.

Of the six million murdered in the Shoah genocide, the one and a half million children’s murder was the most horrific. How can often “ordinary” human beings, frequently educated, demonize, dehumanize and murder babies and children?

Countering Stalin’s boast in the face of the mass murders that the “death of one man is a tragedy but the death of a million is a statistic”, Gandhi, I believe, said “the killing of one man is the killing of a whole universe.”