However, this lecture made me quite and upset and very frustrated. I still cannot get over how much the world has had to lose on account of the Nazi destruction. So many with such potential and greatness were murdered. Kolmar's poetry and writing is so beautiful, yet so much of it was lost. So many others (doctors, lawyers, poets, singers, etc.) were taken away from the world too soon.
My mom just forwarded me an email that was very interesting. It spoke about the fact that there are 14,000,000 Jews in the world- about 0.02% of the world's population. And from this small, small number Jews have received 129 Nobel Prizes through the year 2000. To put this into perspective there are 1,200,000,000 (1.2 BILLION) members of the Islamic community. That is 20% of the world's population. Muslims have received 7 Nobel Prizes.
The Jews have given so much to this world. Imagine if half of our people had not been taken away.
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