Remembering the Holocaust: G-Group's Commitment to Combat Anti-Semitism and Racism

The Holocaust – A Fading Memory

Holocaust historians commonly define the Holocaust as the genocide of the European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1941 and 1945. Donald Niewyk and Francis Nicosia, in The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (2000), favour a definition that includes the Jews, Roma, and disabled people: "the systematic, state-sponsored murder of entire groups determined by heredity".

Other groups targeted after Hitler became Reichskanzler in January 1933 include those whom the Nazis viewed as inherently inferior (some of the Slavic peoples - particularly Poles and Russians,the Roma, and the disabled), and those targeted because of their beliefs or behaviour (such as Jehovah's Witnesses, communists ). Peter Hayes writes that the persecution of these groups was less uniform than that of the Jews. For example, the Nazis' treatment of the Slavs consisted of "enslavement and gradual attrition", while some Slavs were favoured; Hayes lists Bulgarians, Croats, Slovaks, and some Ukrainians. In contrast, according to historian Dan Stone, Hitler regarded the Jews as "a Gegenrasse: a 'counter-race' ... not really human at all".

Today, anti-Semitism,  racism and discrimination against certain religions is more prevalent than ever. Especially in Europe, you can feel the Nazi Conviction on every street corner, so to speak.

The task of G-Group is to ensure that the horror of the past will be known by our children and grandchildren and to protect them from such evil.

What has faded in memory must especially be remembered...as a warning.