New York, April 28—I write having seen the first two-thirds of the first night’s portion of Holocaust, resolving not to see the balance of it.
Why Holocaust? If it served to galvanize the viewing public against the continuation of such practices as the Nazis were guilty of, then it is justified, and should be reshown regularly. Years ago a little-known writer-intellectual called Jack Jones wrote an essay in which he made the resonant point that there is only one way in which the world can atone for the Holocaust, and that is by pledging never again to permit such a thing to happen. After all, there is no means of undoing retroactively what the Nazis did. We profit from reminding ourselves of what happened only by resolving that such a thing shall not happen again.
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