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As a coda to the previous thoughts, I want to ask you to read Blessed is the Flame by Serafinski, and to read at least one memoire of a victim or survivor of the Holocaust. Blessed is the Flame is available as an audiobook for free, as are many Holocaust memoires.

Blessed is the Flame is about what it means to resist even without hope of things getting better, and about resistance in the Nazi concentration camps. I think it's necessary reading for our time. I also think we owe it to those subjected to the worst depredations of the Nazis to learn their stories in their voices, to kindle them in ourselves as the human beings they were. Those who were interned in the concentration camps often had nightmares of being voiceless or mouthless, of crying out unheard, of begging to deaf ears. They feared their fates being unknown. We owe them not allowing that to happen, and we need to know these things for our own sake too.