"What pained (Eli Wiesel) the most was that the people of Sighet had erased the Jews from their memory".
Eli escaped death at Auschwitz, but he and his father were there and in Buchenwald and sub Nazi labor camps to the end. His father died 3 months short of liberation. No one has depicted the Holocaust as well as Eli in his many books and in his "Dialogues". His own sufferings and his thoughts on forgiveness have helped many a survivor deal with their own. At risk of being repetitive, from his Dialogues, I cite the following..."No one should place the burden of forgiveness on the victims".  When the above sermon comes up year after year along with its self righteous comments, it does just that. Still, for Eli, being forgotten added to his constant misery of dealing with forgiveness. Already, new generations of American Catholics are clueless about the Holocaust and are encouraged to not be too curious about the pedophilia crisis. Christ said "Remember Me". Let us not forget any of it!