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duce, or forget the truth. Until his final
breath in 2016, Samuel Willenberg, the
last survivor of Treblinka, “urged the
world never to forget Treblinka.” 43 That
urging should extend to include all
camps that were part of the Final Solution,
whether they have physically survived
or not. Former Israeli president
Moshe Katsav stated in 2005 that the
Allies “‘did not do enough’ to prevent
the killing of Jews in World War II” and
that the European Union today should
“not allow Nazism to live in the imagination
of the youth of Europe like some
kind of horror show.” 44 Rather, scholars
and authorities should confront that
period and its atrocities for what they
were and are, not suppressed and ignored
for the benefit of ideology.
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