This short video of the Yeshiva Boys Choir singing “Daddy Come Home,” will make you cry:
The song and the candles remind me of the remarks that Joel M. Geiderman, Vice Chairman of the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Council, made in 2009 in the Capitol Rotunda, before the leaders assembled there on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
He compared Hitler’s threats to those being made openly less than 65 years after the end of World War II, and he called on the leaders and the rest of the world to assure that no country that make such threats ever obtains the means to carry them out:
By my articulating these words to you in this building, in this great hall of freedom, I am reminding all of you that what we do and don’t do matters and will be remembered. It would be far too easy to light twelve candles for twelve million murdered rather than six candles for six million. The harder work is to make sure that that does not happen. No more candles. Not anywhere. Never again.