January 27, 2026
The Distance Between Then and Now Is Thinner Than We Think, To Remember Is to Resist, 81st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz. .
In 1993, my dad took me to see Schindler’s List . I was sixteen and hadn’t given the Holocaust much thought before that day. He had me drive us to the theater in Silverdale, and I got to skip school. It felt ordinary at the time—just a weekday afternoon with my dad. He worked most weekends, so his days off landed qui…