These two photographs of Jewish corpses are impossible to imagine happening to any living soul, let alone to look at.

And yet, as unbearable as these images are to witness, the horror of what these poor souls must have endured can never be captured in a photograph.

My father-in-law, a Holocaust survivor, came to the United States in 1944, where he was soon drafted into the U.S. Army and bravely stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.

Of the many photographs he took as he liberated concentration camps, these two stand proudly framed and on display in the lower level of our house for all to see every day.

Some might say the graphic images of piles of dead Jewish bodies, front and center, are too haunting, too brutal, too violent to sit out so casually, but we vehemently disagree.

The brutality these images evoke serves as a daily reminder to us of the despicable acts committed against innocent Jewish men, women, and children.

A daily reminder that the liberation and the end of World War II came too late for these massacred Jewish souls.

A daily reminder that we must remember and NEVER FORGET the Holocaust as the generation of Jewish survivors passes, because too soon they will no longer be alive to tell their stories firsthand.

And now, here is why I shared these powerful, soul-stirring photographs with you:

Invoking genocide, the Holocaust, the Nazis, and the Gestapo to describe Gaza, Minnesota, Chicago, Republicans, ICE actions, or anyone who isn’t on the same page as you is unconscionable.

The Holocaust was a systematic genocide, not a metaphor for policies you oppose.

Your metaphorical nonsense is a reckless lie that distorts history and disrespects Holocaust survivors and their descendants, including my husband, the son of two survivors.

Comparing illegal immigrants to Anne Frank is despicable. It willfully ignores the obvious—that Anne Frank, who was not violating immigration laws and was a rightful citizen of her country, was hiding from genocide and from being murdered for the crime of being Jewish.

Anyone who dares to compare the heartbreaking events of Anne Frank’s short life is pathetically unprincipled and ignorant of historical facts. Many of you are intelligent enough to know that Anne Frank’s family would have given anything to escape their country of origin, which had become Nazi Germany.

I am confident, given your nonstop, moronic comparisons to the Holocaust by far too many of you, that you are fully capable of coming up with some other creative analogy than comparing illegal immigration enforcement to the state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jewish men, women, and children by the Nazi German regime and its European allies and collaborators.

Drawing parallels between the fear of deportation for being in the United States illegally and the brutal slaughter of two out of every three Jews in Europe is reprehensible.

SHAME ON YOU.

You, who are so adept with words, should be able to criticize politics without exploiting or trivializing the unimaginable Jewish suffering and loss.

You have, at worst, willfully and at best, ignorantly cheapened a horrific time in history.

SO, TAKE A LONG, HARD LOOK AT THESE PHOTOGRAPHS, AND PLEASE STOP USING A JEWISH HISTORICAL TRAGEDY FOR PETTY PARTISAN GAIN.

In the summer of 1938, Hitler claimed that the Sudetenland, a border region of Czechoslovakia with a German-speaking majority, needed to be saved by Germany and threatened war if his demand was not met.

On September 30, 1938, the British and French leaders, hoping to avoid a war, agreed to this act of appeasement, officially allowing Germany to annex the Sudetenland, without Czechoslovakian input.

If this illegal and outrageous land grab sounds familiar, well, you know the old saying: “History has a way of repeating itself.”

Less than one year later, on September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. On September 7, 1940, Germany began conducting mass air attacks against British cities, starting with London.

While Hitler was advancing through Europe, Charles Lindbergh and the America First isolation movement believed that there was no American interest in stopping Hitler and that Hitler’s sworn policy to harass and persecute Jews was an internal German issue.

Lindbergh was the leading opposition voice to the U.S. involvement in World War II—until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and Hitler’s declaration of war against the United States.

The defeat of Hitler and the horrors of Jewish genocide brought about the recognition of the State of Israel through the United Nations Partition Plan in 1947. The Partition Plan proposed to divide Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalem designated as an international zone.

The Jews agreed, but the Palestinian Arabs and surrounding Arab states (Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq) rejected the plan, leading to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the subsequent creation of the State of Israel.

And now, here we are with Russia and its dictator, Putin, invading Ukraine—the first invasion of a sovereign European nation since the end of World War II. Putin’s justification for his Ukrainian land grab was eerily similar to Hitler’s annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland.

The terrorist organization Hamas declared war by invading the sovereign state of Israel with a sneak attack, slaughtering men, women, and children, and causing the highest number of Jewish deaths since World War II.

Hamas’s justification for their war against Israel was the rejection of Israel’s existence, to improve its domestic popularity among Palestinians, which had seen some decline due to deteriorating living conditions under its governance in Gaza, and religious fundamentalism.

At a time when Ukraine and Israel are fighting for their very survival, it is shocking that no one has learned from the past and the lessons of World War II.

Instead of standing united against the Russian aggression toward Ukraine and Hamas’s murderous attack and threat to annihilate Israel and its people, isolationists like Tucker Carlson and Candice Owen, along with their sycophants, praise and enable Putin, and disparage Ukraine, the Ukrainians, Israel, and the Jews.

And while Europe has stood steadfast with Ukraine against Russia, most countries have turned their backs on Israel, the Israelis, and the Jewish diaspora by making excuses for the terrorist organization, Hamas.

Both conflicts began with cross-border aggression against internationally recognized sovereign states, which is the most basic violation of international law.

Both of these declarations of war by vicious dictatorships and authoritarian regimes against Ukraine and Israel had a clearly stated goal:  to wipe Ukraine and Israel off the face of the earth.

The terrorist organization Hamas against Israel and the dictator Putin against Ukraine both assert that Israel and Ukraine have no right to exist, and too many around the world agree with these murderous regimes.

The wars in Gaza and Ukraine have affected the world in significant ways, including deepening political divisions and exacerbating political polarization, causing mass protests worldwide.

Both wars have strained the world’s economy through inflation and high aid costs, and have significantly influenced elections, both here in the United States and around the world.

The failure to learn from past mistakes and allowing history to repeat itself is due to factors like insufficient critical thinking, generational gaps in experience, or a lack of comprehensive knowledge about previous events.

The wars against Ukraine and Israel are what happen when so many around the world look away.