The Holocaust and Covid-19

It was International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday, during a period when the Covid-19 pandemic continues to rage. Humanity is united in the effort to battle the virus with vaccinations as we struggle to maintain our normal way of life. In facing the pandemic and its consequences we face the unknown power of nature, hoping science will be on our side as we aim to conquer the threat and its impact on our lives. Seventy-six years ago, humanity was fighting a challenge totally incomparable to the pandemic, the utmost evil of Nazism and its genocidal policies.

Οn January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated from the Nazis and their collaborators, exposing the horror of atrocities taking place in that concentration camp and many others in the implementation of the Nazi policy of the "Final Solution" aimed at the elimination and liquidation of the Jewish people. The...