Remembering the Holocaust

Voices Interview with Dr. Rebecca Carter Chand

  • Can you unpack what your role is at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum?
  • Is it true that Hitler viewed the Jews not as a religion, but as a race? What were the implications of this thinking? 
  • What was Hitler’s religious worldview?
  • Did the German church contribute in anyway to the rise of National Socialism and the Holocaust or was it the rise of secularism or did both contribute?
  • “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” What are some warning signs that people are about to repeat the past?
  • What lessons have you learned from your research that is important for the church today to understand?
  • What do you think about how some people use the term  “Holocaust” or “genocide” to describe other cases of mass violence/injustice?
  • I have talked to many people in my own circles who don’t believe in the holocaust. How would you respond to this misleading information?
  • What are some concrete things that we, as Canadians, as Christians, can do, so we don’t mistreat people with different religious views?