A Warning for Future Generations

CHAIM ENGEL: What I would like to add only is that Hitler didn’t start to be big in one day.

It started very small, and things can grow and be bigger, so never, never ignore when you see some bigotry or prejudice, whether it’s against Jews or others; you never know how much it can grow.

There is hatred in a lot of people, more than we know about, and you have to be very careful, you cannot ignore it.

You have to react when you see it.

How is react?

You shouldn’t take it for granted.

You should, uh, think about there could be a danger, and then, apply what you can to help the situation, and that’s as a matter of fact the reason that we go and talk about it, because we’re still around, survivors that people believe and see what really can happen.

Because the story is unbelievable, but that is really what happened.

That people [. . .] got slaughtered like cows, like animals, and that human beings can do that, and I don’t think change, people change now from 50 years ago.

The right people do the right thing; the wrong people do the wrong thing.

So, you cannot ignore that if you see things like that.

You have to be sensitive, you can’t say, ‘Ah, this one, the Ku Klux Klan, ah, what can they do?’

You never know.

So you have to be very alert about and react to it.

That is what I would say, that we hope nothing like that can happen.

But, believe me, it can happen.