Why You Must Vote: a Jewish kid’s perspective on ‘Never Again’

When I was a little girl growing up in New York in the 1960’s and 70’s, orbiting in the very air around me was this whispered shameful secret about the 6,000,000 of us Jews who had perished under Nazism during WWII.

It was a burden so enormous, a truth so vile, that it could not be held if spoken aloud. It was uttered under the breath, as if that could lessen the velocity of its impact on our collective heart and mind.

The ‘Sshhh’s’ when the topic was raised were followed by a dead, blank look on…