Remembering the lives lost in the Holocaust is an act of resistance against the Nazis' attempts to dehumanize and destroy human lives. The full horror of genocide is in its ambition not only to murder individuals, families, and communities, but also to wipe out an entire people to whom they belonged - the people who could tell their story, and preserve their memories.

 

In their attempt to obliterate human life, the Nazis sought to change the future. There would be no Jews to remember the Jewish people who  were exterminated ; there would be no Jewish perspective on Jewish history, no Jewish insistence that each life is important and should  be mourned .