Yehuda Bauer on what thou shalt not be
Three new Commandments to add to the ten
The Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer is one of the preeminent historians of the Holocaust. His family fled Czechoslovakia when he was thirteen on the day the Germans annexed the country, and settled in British Mandate Palestine the next year. He died October 18th at the age of 98. This is taken from his address to the Bundestag in 1998.
I come from a people that gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Let us agree that we need three more, and they are these: thou shalt not be a perpetrator; thou shalt not be a victim; and thou shalt never, but never, be a bystander.