Today, on Yom HaShoah, we remember the 6 million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust \u2013 simply because they were Jews. It was then that the mantra \u201cNever again\u201d was born.<\/p>\n
And yet it did happen again \u2026 in Cambodia and in Bosnia, in Rwanda and in Darfur. And it\u2019s still happening today. Just look at the savageries perpetrated against the Rohingya ethnic minority living in Myanmar (Burma).<\/p>\n
Despite all this, we must continue to pursue justice and work to make a difference in the lives of survivors of genocide and mass atrocities.<\/p>\n
At Jewish World Watch, that difference comes in the form of new water wells that we\u2019re digging in Uganda for South Sudanese refugees fleeing an ethnically charged civil war. It comes in the form of perma-gardening, an ultra-efficient farming technique we\u2019re teaching Darfuri refugees in Chad to reduce their reliance on reduced rations.<\/p>\n
On this day, as we remember the 6 million Jews, we commemorate as well all the others who have perished in the years since. Together, we must double our resolve to take action in their memory.<\/p>\n