This year Yom Hashoah falls on April 23-24. April 24 is also the day of remembrance of the Armenian genocide, which began on that date in 1915. The “Committeee of Union and Progress,” a faction of the “Young Turks” who were “reforming” the Ottoman empire, formulated and carried out the policy to drive Armenians off their land and onto a death march through the Syrian desert, where over a million starved or were murdered by Ottoman soldiers.

How right is it to mix remembrance of the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide? Not only is it right, it is necessary and important. Because if the world had said “Never Again” after the Turkish genocide of the Armenians, the Jews and Romani murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators might have been saved.

Hitler himself, may his bones be blasted and his name rot,........

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