The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. A Reflection on Yom Hashoah As we commemorate Yom Hashoah, Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day on 27 Nisan (Jewish calendar), and this year on April 8 (Gregorian calendar), several images resound in my consciousness.
Under the Hitler regime…the most important thing that I learned…was that bigotry and hatred are not the most urgent problems. The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful, and the most tragic problem is silence. — Joachim Prinz, Rabbi of Berlin, exiled in 1937 to the United States, from his speech August 28, 1963, Washington, DC