To these people, I say: Read Pastor Martin Niemöller’s poem written during the Holocaust, “First They Came.” We know what has been done so far. What is next?

As a Jewish child growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust and the McCarthy era, the son of a union leader, and as a ...

No one believed the anti-democratic and antisemitic laws the Nazi party proposed would actually pass. Antisemitism had existed long before the Holocaust began; the United States Holocaust Memorial ...

Both quotes deliberately recall the famous 1946 poem “First They Came . . .” by Martin Niemöller. In it, Niemöller bemoans the German people’s silence during the Nazis’ rise to power.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the 1946, the German pastor Martin Niemoller wrote a poem about the importance ...

Martin Niemoller was a Lutheran ... he wrote what has become known as the "Niemoller Confession." I quote this confession for consideration. "First they came for the Communists, and I did not ...