B"H
I visited the website and was surprised to see so few children represented there. I wondered where the 1, 100 pictures taken by social services went. I wondered why the US Holocaust Memorial Museum hasn't featured all of them.
Also, the saddest thing is that most of the kids who have been identified were older kids.
The babies remain unidentified. (They probably also remain clueless to the fact that they are Jewish.)
Sadly, the lost ones are the second Holocaust--the one of assimilation.
Many Jews who did survive became "reform" or "secular" or members of socialist/communist parties, believing G-d had forgotten them. They married non-Jews, and their children married non-Jews.
They eliminated themselves from the Jewish people--and they allowed Hitler to win in the end.
Then, of course, there are the thousands upon thousands of Jews raised by Catholics.
The guy who currently sits in the pope's chair, the former Nazi Youth, could release the names of the Catholic families who took in Jewish children during the Holocaust.
He could, but he won't.
His loyalties to Her Hitler haven't changed, and he continues to help Hitler win.
Then, there are thousands upon thousands of anusim -- the "hidden Jews" who lived in Catholic countries after the Inquisition -- who are desperately trying to learn anything they can about their past, about their hidden Jewish heritage, and who are being taken advantage of by fake "Jews for Jesus" soul snatchers who call themselves "rabbis" and lead those anusim away from Torah and their people.
If you keep Shabbat, keep Kosher, and educate your children in Torah, you are a fighter, every day, against the second Holocaust.
Religious Jews face job discrimination, high education costs, high food costs, and antisemitism on a daily basis. When we walk down the street, we fear being accosted or worse--especially in Europe and the Middle East. We go to synagogues guarded by security, and we pay the extra cost to live near that synagogue so we can keep G-D's LAW.
If you don't do at least the basics--like keeping Shabbat and keeping Kosher . . . well, don't expect your grandchildren to be Jewish. You can do your great-great grandchildren a favor, though. I know you don't care about being Jewish, but in a few generations, the nishamah of one of your great-great-grandchildren may call out to them, and they might want to become observant.
When they do, it would be nice for them to know where they can find your mother's ketubah. Keep it safe. Pass it down. Make sure everyone knows where it is. It's the one thing that might help them come back from the abyss.
M