The price of willful cultural forgetting is our humanity.
Dinner by the Sea
Combatants for Peace.
Dutch Jews board a deportation train to Auschwitz at transit camp Westerbork, Netherlands, ca. 1942–43. Photo taken by Jewish photographer Rudolf Breslauer, found in personal album
of camp commander Albert Konrad Gemmeker.
The price of willful cultural forgetting is our humanity.

Rabbi Philip Graubart teaches Jewish thought at the Academy for Jewish Religion in California. His latest novel is "Here There Is No Why."
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