International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2018

If you didn't know, today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2018. It's an important day to remember the millions of Jews, disabled, LGBTQ+, and others that were unjustly persecuted and murdered for their identity. Moreover, it's crucial for us to use this day to recommit ourselves towards fighting anti-Semitism, white supremacy, and any form of hatred. As we talked about, Freud and his family, as Austrian Jews, were victims of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. Three of Freud's sisters, Marie, Pauline, and Rosa, were all forced to Treblinka and murdered in gas chambers. His fourth sister, Adolfine, was taken to a concentration camp in Theresienstadt where she soon passed away due to internal hemorrhaging. Freud himself was also deeply affected by the persecution, and he was forced by Nazis to leave his private practice in Vienna. Once Nazis came into power, Freud's books were burned publicly in Germany. Freud responded to the burning of his books with: "What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now, they are content with burning my books."