y essentially destroyed themselves in the process of following that obsession: "Hatred of Jews was a Nazi obsession and transcended the drive for self-preservation" (40).
However, the Jews, because of their suffering, cannot concentrate only on surviving with no other considerations. That is, if they think only of themselves, they run the danger of becoming their enemy. The emphasis on "Never again for us!" "can have a subtle effect of desensitizing the Jewish community to the suffering of others as the community takes whatever steps it feels are necessary to insure its own survival." The Jews "cannot endure without justice--even as they wrestle with the exigencies of survival in an increasingly dangerous world (63-64).
Of course, this work on the necessity of remembering the Shoah is based on the belief that only such attention can prevent it from happening again, and to insure that the Jews answer the evil done them with daily sancti
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