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Our Niemöller Scroll is named for Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984), a German Protestant minister who led the church's opposition to Hitler and as a result was imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps from 1937 to 1945. The eloquent statement below, widely attributed to Pastor Niemöller, continues to serve as a meaningful and appropriately urgent reminder of what happens when neighbors and fellow citizens adopt the posture of bystanders.

First they came for the Communists and the Socialists but I was not one of them, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, but I was not a Trade Unionist so I kept quiet. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't Jewish. And when they came for me, there was no one was left to speak out for me.

Part of our mission at the Center for Holocaust/Genocide Study is to protest "bystanderism" and to foster a spirit of involvement and commitment among people and nations, a sense of common destiny and responsibility, a willingness to act on behalf of others, particularly when they are in trouble or in danger.

We have chosen to honor those members of the Center who support our work, most generously, by inscribing their names on the Niemöller Scroll, which hangs in our office on a wall specifically devoted to the annual listings. We are deeply grateful to each and every one of these contributors.

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