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But where I differ strongly with some of my political comrades is on the issue of the Shoah (I refuse to use the word holocaust).

A small minority in my political community are Shoah revisionists who don’t deny that it happened, they just question the numbers of dead and documentation.

What is particularly disturbing is that many revisionists are Jewish.

I’ve argued that how can you question the archived news footage, pictures, falsified death records and the relics the Nazi’s had no time to destroy.

Six million people, over one million in Auschwitz alone, don’t all die from natvral causes.

Revisionists have argued with me about the accuracy of the number count.

Of course it cannot be an exact figure as this event happened in the paper and typewriter age before computers, but that doesn’t mean the numbers aren’t a close estimate.

My great grandparents came to America from Germany 20 years before Hitler.

I am proud of my maternal Jewish lineage. I’ve known Auschwitz survivors.

They are my people. I try to imagine what it must’ve been like to be sent to the chambers or be starved and worked to death.

To try to survive the brutal winters in Poland dressed in clothing as thin as pajamas. Or to freeze to death or die by typhus.

The horror. Every shabbes when I kindle the sabbath lights, I watch the dancing flames and think about the six million.

Never forget.