When writing on the Holocaust, I am reminded of the early teachings of my parents – the profundity and pain of which I realized only years later – that there are things in Jewish history – in human history – too terrible to be believed, but not too terrible to have happened.

Indeed, the Holocaust was uniquely evil in its genocidal singularity – where biology was inescapably destiny – a war against the Jews in which, as Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel put it, “not all victims were Jews, but all Jews were victims.”

It appears that the full dimensions of this unprecedented evil – of these unfathomable horrors – are only now becoming fully known. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum, after 13 years of research, has disclosed the full extent of Nazi criminality, revealing the existence of some 42,500 documented ghettos, killing centres, forced labour camps, P.O.W. camps, brothels, and “care centers” where babies were aborted or killed. The sheer magnitude of this revelation has shocked even some Holocaust experts. (read more at Times of Israel)