International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Encourage the capacity for reverence with storytelling beyond the trauma
Boyd has often said that people who lose the capacity for reverence of life, are at risk of losing a great deal more. Tomorrow is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an annual day of commemoration to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism. On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops enter Auschwitz, Poland, freeing the survivors of the network of concentration camps—and finally revealing to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there. While it is important to teach the horrors of the Holocaust to prevent another genocide from ever being repeated again, the late great Rabbi Lord Sacks while developing an educational series on the Holocaust challenged the world to teach beyond the trama of the event, and focus instead on the life and stories of the victims and the joy that we are able to live now. ‘Inside Sources with Boyd Matheson,’ Opinion Editor at Deseret News, takes you inside the latest political news and current events, providing higher ground for today's discussions. Listen live Monday through Thursday from 11 am to noon at 1160 AM and 102.7 FM, online at KSLNewsradio.com, or on the app. Listen on-demand as a podcast on your favorite platform or web browser. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Want more Boyd? Don’t forget to listen to his Deseret News podcast ‘Therefore, What?,’ sign up for his weekly newsletter, and follow him on Twitter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.