Trivializing the Holocaust is ignorant and dangerous at any time and in any place, but with the current spike in antisemitic attacks, it is especially frightening.
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Arizona prepares for death row executions with gas once used by Nazis By Caitlin O Kane The Execution of Joseph Wood
After nearly seven years, Arizona will begin to execute death row inmates again – and has purchased the ingredients to make hydrogen cyanide, or HCN, a lethal gas once used by Nazis.
Zyklon B, a powerful insecticide, is a carrier for hydrogen cyanide, which was used to kill Jews at Auschwitz, according to the Jewish Virtual Library. HCN, which is extremely poisonous to humans, is the cause of death following the application of Zyklon B.
An average 6,000 Jews were killed each day using Zyklon B at the Auschwitz II killing center, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
By Elisabeth Nieshalla | June 2, 2021 | 9:51am EDT
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(CNS News) In the wake of the anti-Semitic demonstrations and attacks that have occurred in this country, apparently in response to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a group of Holocaust survivors published an open letter to American leaders and citizens, calling on them to “forcefully reject anti-Semitism and the misuse of the Holocaust in our national discourse.”
In the May 28 letter posted on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s website, the survivors expressed their deep appreciation and admiration of America, their “adopted homeland.” alt
“Yet today, our solemn obligation to the memory of those who were murdered in the most destructive eruption of anti-Semitism the world has ever experienced compels us to write this open letter to our leaders and fellow citizens,” the letter reads.