I am Kim, Nicki, and Jon's older sister. I am daughter of Larry and Judy, as well as Marjorie's granddaughter. I've always been concerned by the questions the event of the Holocaust demands of us as human beings. What was done in the Holocaust was an assault on existence at its most fundamental level. All of that would have been for nothing, and as such, the Nazis win.
Existence is eliminated.
Further, we fail those who follow us because we will be unable to prevent it from happening again. The Holocaust teaches us that we are intimately connected to those around us, even if we don't know their name. That existence is tied to connections to family, to community. I just discovered this really neat site done by a Holocaust survivor. This guy has a lot to say.