As Jews around the world observe Yom HaShoah—the day in the Jewish calendar commemorating the Holocaust—many will discern echoes of the past in the present. A torrent of anti-Jewish sentiment has led to attacks across Europe, the United States, and elsewhere as we witness the all too familiar re-emergence of ideologies that cast “the Jew” as the cause of global challenges. Meanwhile, ongoing wars across the Middle East flood our media with images of destruction, as civilians experience fear, displacement, and loss. It is precisely in such a climate of heightened tensions that historical memory becomes both more fragile and more necessary.