Holocaust Remembrance Day Yom Hashoah

Thoughts on Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC 
 
Sam Adams  
Had never been  
To the Holocaust Museum,  
 
Despite the fact  
He had lived  
And worked in DC for decades  
 
One day after he retired 
He said to himself 
It was long past time  
To finally see the holocaust museum 
 
He went the week
After Charleston,
When the mob had chanted,
Jews will not replace us.
 
The museum affected him deeply 
He had just confirmed
Through DNA
 
That he had at least 10 percent 
Jewish ancestry 
Among the 18 other nationalities 
Swirling among these bloodlines 
 
Sam Adams was concerned  
Those elements of antisemitism  
We’re emerging among  
The MAGA crowd. 
  
But he dismissed 
 The fears that Trump  
Was another Hitler  
As liberal hyperbole 
 
It could not happen here 
A new holocaust  
Would never happen 
But now he was not so sure 

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