#genocides and other atrocities and humanitarian crises are still happening

[charlesoberonn]

One time in high school we went to the Yad Vashem museum (the main Holocaust museum in Israel) and the guide told us a story about one time when a delegation from Rwanda visited the museum. They told him that they came there so they could "learn how to remember" because their own genocide was already being forgotten and not taught to the next generation.

Later in the tour, he showed an exhibit of the various circus performances that happened just outside the Warsaw Ghetto. He talked about how while Jews were suffering and being slaughtered, other people were living normally like nothing was happening. And that made him think about how while the Rwandan Genocide was happening, he was probably at home watching TV.

That tour stuck with him, and his story stuck with me.