Holocaust Memorial Day

I'm currently watching the Ken Burns series The U.S. and the Holocaust, which is available on BBC iPlayer. It discusses the action that the United States took when faced with the persecution of Jews by the Nazis. Or rather the lack of it.

The immigration quotas were maintained. Jews seeking visas needed $5,000 bonds to cover them, a huge sum of money back then. And antisemitic views were publicly expressed by many influential people, including Senators and preachers with national radio shows. Only FDR really emerges with much credit out of the top people.

I think it's a reminder that evil generally has a lot easier time of it when good people do nothing - or there are other evil people in charge of organisations with the means to help.

The Holocaust was a German crime, but a global failure - and we must make sure actions like that do not happen again.

The Last of Us

Watched the first episode of this last week and got to say that's an excellent drama even if - like me - you've never played the games. There may well be a full review of the season once it's finished.

2023 Plans

I know this blog has been a bit quiet lately - I assume someone still reads it. Hopefully, I will get this a bit more active in 2023. For one thing, I hope to get round to watching original Star Trek at some point, but I've still got too much modern TV to watch including Strange New Worlds.

There's a number of Marvel movies out - and the new Indiana Jones - so I might well review them.

We shall see though. Make sure you follow me on your RSS feeder of choice.