"For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people"
- Simon Wiesenthal
About this Quote
This quote by Simon Wiesenthal is a pointer of the catastrophe of the Holocaust and an alerting to gain from it. He is recommending that the exact same catastrophe should not be duplicated and that it is not inevitable that the next victims of such a catastrophe should be Jews. He is stressing that it might be any other group of individuals and that we should take actions to prevent it from happening again. He is urging us to learn from the past and to do something about it to guarantee that such a disaster does not take place again. He is reminding us that we have the power to prevent such a tragedy from happening again and that we ought to use it. He is also advising us that we must not be contented which we should take steps to make sure that such a disaster does not take place again.