The Holocost

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i think it's something i think about all the time. A lot of people, especially being the president of a college that's devoted to the great, great ideas of western jewish thought. And so is raelis,. i think, have an issuewt with the holicost. It's heart git's hard. I meant all that should be who you are is a full human being. You don't want to be a cardboard character. As holicoust holicost enough, it's we gat to look forward. We can't look at it at that past. If that's all we are, as victims, then young people are going to get a terrible

In his memoir of his time in Auschwitz, Primo Levi describes Jewish prisoners bathing in freezing water without soap--not because they thought it would make them cleaner, but because it helped them hold on to their dignity. For poet and author Dwayne Betts, Levi's description of his fellow inmates' suffering, much like the novelist Ralph Ellison's portrayal of early twentieth-century black life in America, is much more than bearing witness to the darkest impulses of mankind. Rather, Betts tells EconTalk host Russ Roberts, both authors' writing turns experiences of inhumanity into lessons on what it means to be a human being.