Remembrance

By David Bidussa*

“Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it” (George Santayana).
On November 16, 1940, 79 years ago, the gates to the Warsaw Ghetto were definitely closed, and a wall was erected around it. No one wrote about it. What if Santayana was right?

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.