If we held just one minute of silence for every victim of the Holocaust then we would be silent for eleven and a half years. Never forget. Never again.
Unfathomable. Every bit of it.
At the local university they read names of victims aloud every year on Yom ha’Shoa. They come at the rate of one every few seconds. Needless to say, they don’t get through more than a fraction.
There is a synagogue in Prague with the names of Czech Jews who perished. To stand in it and try to read through them is an experience — and there are less than 78,000 names there. [ x ]
Everything people do to try to get their heads around the numbers somehow just makes it all the more unfathomable.