Not just the Jews, but also those throughout the world. There's no excuse for ethnic cleansing anywhere. From this example, which is by far one of the worst examples in the history of the world, we can learn ways to stop it and to recognize the signs that it is happening. Since genocide still occurs in the present, Holocaust Remembrance Week holds even greater significance to some. It's still happening in our world, and that's the message of the program and the message of Holocaust survivors.
Ignorance is a bad thing.
This is where I think we should educate ourselves, our friends and other people. According to Pariser, the Nazis would come into his village and terrorize the Jews who lived there in order to systematically demoralize and bully them into submission. During one incident that Pariser recalled, Nazi soldiers forced the Jewish men of the village to lay the sacred Torah on the ground and to walk upon it. When his grandfather refused, he was beaten unconscious and later died from his injuries. Upon hearing that their village was to be liquidated, Pariser and his family fled the area and hid with Christian families.