When you hear "never forget" regarding the Holocaust, what does that mean to you?

For me it is fairly redundant. I am married to a Jewish lady and the holocaust is raw front and center in her family having lost loved ones so long ago. Sadly there are a vast majority of people alive today who have little to no connection to the horrors of that time and place. IMO we need to honor these anniversaries to remind us that we shall do everything and anything to avoid a repeat.

Jew. It means never forget so it doesn’t happen again. Didn’t help, though. Many places genocide has happened since then.

Not Jewish. For me it means that the world should never forget it happened as a way of ensuring such genocide does not and cannot happen again. Sadly, as @monthly mentions, genocide has happened again and the world has stood by and done very little.

It means I feel I should never be obliged to state if I am Jewish or not.

@flutherother Nice one.

@flutherother The reason I asked if the jellies answering are Jewish or not is because of the answers on this Q.

@JLeslie I have no problem with people mentioning it where they think it is relevant.

@flutherother I didn’t take your comment personally, I was just explaining in general. The other Q had answers I did not expect. I couldn’t help but think most Jews looked at in one way, and then people who weren’t Jewish had more varied answers. I found the answers fascinating.

To me, too, it means never forget it could happen, so we don’t get complacent and let it happen again. And I think genocide is a threat to everybody, Jewish or not, although I don’t subscribe to any religion.

I’m not Jewish. To me, it means that we need to actively work against hate every day. It’s bigger to me – not about just Hitler, or Jews. It’s about humanity.

A shorthand version of Santayana’s aphorism: “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.

Speaking as a Jewish man who lost family in the Holocaust, I believe it means we must always remember and therefore forever remain vigilant to the awful fact that no man, woman or child of any race, creed, color or religion is ever invulnerable to the inhuman savagery of those who believe they are superior to others.

Trump and his surrogates, for example.

“Never forget”, regarding the Holocaust, means to me that the majority of humans are followers.
Leaders are not inherently good. They are good at manipulation. Good at getting people to follow them.
Humans are malleable. Give most people a seemingly valid argument, and they will agree without additional thought or analysis.
Honestly? Holocaust? Makes me smell burned flesh for an instant. Sniff…gone.

I HATE that.