Tamar -thank you for a very thoughtful post. Anonymous -before lashing at writers for not checking their sources, you might want to check yours. "Before the Nazi takeover of power in 1933, Europe had a vibrant and mature Jewish culture. By 1945, most European Jews--two out of every three--had been killed." (Source: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005687 see also http://www1.yadvashem.org/Odot/prog/index_before_change_table.asp?gate=5...) This is still *most* of the Jewish population in Europe at the time. Furthermore, Tamar wasn't accusing anyone of "minimizing other people's suffering and death": in a time particularly set aside for remembrance, she is contributing to the memory of all the victims of the Shoah. I really don't see anything polemical about this.