How will generations that didn't experience the Holocaust remember it?

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5. I had great grandparents who lost a farm to the Cloquet Fire of 1918.

I would say that most people in Minnesota don't know that there were fires here that killed more people and burned more land than the Great Chicago Fire. If they even have heard of the Chicago Fire - my generation knows of that because of a cow. In Minnesota, some may know of the Hinckley fire, most have never heard of the Cloquet Fire. I only know about it because of studying my family history.

Fortunately, my great Grandparents and their children were in Duluth and they only lost their farm buildings in Hermantown. The reasons for the fires was ironically the exact same things - leaving the branches from cutting lumber laying where the tress were felled. Eventually, there was so much dried fuel laying around that small fires turned into infernos. I really hate to say it, but if they had "raked" the forests, the fires would have not spread. Not that could have with no heavy equipment in existence.

I wish there was a way to educate people about historical events that teach lessons about what doesn't work. Racism, Sexism, Bigotry of all kinds, Trickle down economics, pollution, war...