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HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE has made Jews empathetic to the suffering of others, and indeed the East European countries suffered brutally under four decades of Soviet rule. Hundreds of thousands of people lost their jobs, were deported, were forced into labor camps by Communist regimes whose cruelty was beyond doubt, and far too many perished or had their lives ruined. Soviet crimes were nothing less than horrible and should be remembered in their own distinct way. But there was no Soviet genocide. There was no Soviet Holocaust.61:{"position":6,"content":"$62"} 63:{"position":7,"content":"By blurring the definition of genocide, that earth-shattering term loses its meaning. If everything is genocide then nothing is genocide."} 64:{"position":8,"content":"To mark the anniversary of Wannsee and to counter the dangerous trends in Europe today, I have released the Seventy Years Declaration on the Anniversary of the Final Solution at Wannsee, together with Professor Dovid Katz, author of the DefendingHistory.com blog. The declaration has been signed by over 70 parliamentarians from 19 European Union countries, including three former Europe foreign ministers, two vice presidents of the European Parliament and a vice president of the Bundestag. In addition to remembering the Final Solution plan with “humility and sadness,” the declaration explicitly rejects the notion of “double genocide.”"} 65:{"position":9,"content":"Seventy years after the Wannsee Conference, the reconciliation process for the crimes of World War II is not yet complete, p

Remembering Wannsee

Seventy years ago, a 90-minute conference sealed the fate of millions of Jews.