I have tried to keep memory alive… I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

There’s a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.