by: David Harris - AJC In the Jewish tradition, we are commanded to remember (zachor) and not to forget (lo tishkach) On April 15, we commemorate Yom HaShoah, the Day of Holocaust Remembrance. On this solemn occasion, 62 years after the end of World War II, we remember. We remember the six million Jewish martyrs, including 1.5 million children, who were exterminated in the Holocaust. We remember the entirely new alphabet created by the Nazis for the Final Solution -- from the letter "A" for Auschwitz to the letter "Z" for Zyklon-B. We remember not only the tragic deaths of the six million Jews, but also their vibrant lives -- as shopkeepers and craftsmen, scientists and authors, teachers and students, parents and children, husbands and wives. We remember the richly hued and ancient Jewish civilizations that were destroyed -- from Salonika, Greece to Vilna, Lithuania. We remember the slippery slope that began with the rantings of an obscure Austrian-born anti-Semi...
