ted, everything has its place. Man makes the transition from the era of holocaust silence to the era of communications with remarkable ease. Once walled in by ghettos, man now takes flight to the moon. If today we live too quickly. If today we endow machines with increasingly wide powers, it is because the generation before us so foolishly left its fate and decisions in the hands of man (9)." And if we leave our lives in the hands of man we will only be hurt. Man has proven over and over again that mistakes will be made, and people will be hurt in some way. In today's world it seems that we put or fate in the hands of machines, computers now run our lives, and in less than three months we will find out if those computers will malfunction and again our lives will be harmed or changed in some way. Maybe when the clock strikes twelve on New Years Eve the only thing that will happen is the celebration of the new millennium, and the computers will be all right and everything will work. Who knows? We will soon find out.The people of the Holocaust put their lives into the hands of God, and hoped that they would be spared. Those who survived wrote to understand, to inform, and to keep the memories of the seven million people who were so violently murdered alive. They want to be remembered for all that they have been through. The people of today owe the survivors a debt of gratitude and respect. They have lived through something that most of us cannot even imagine, and that most of us do not even want to imagine. Why did God let this happen? Why did the world stand by and let this happen? The world as a whole should have come together and worked as one to stop this awful tragedy. I myself am sorry and I apologize for the lack of effort on my people's behalf. No one should have to go through what those people did. May the world remember them always, all of them victims, and all of them hero's.Why do the survivors of such a tra...
