Both quotes deliberately recall the famous 1946 poem “First They Came . . .” by Martin Niemöller. In it, Niemöller bemoans the German people’s silence during the Nazis’ rise to power.

No one believed the anti-democratic and antisemitic laws the Nazi party proposed would actually pass. Antisemitism had existed long before the Holocaust began; the United States Holocaust Memorial ...

As a Jewish child growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust and the McCarthy era, the son of a union leader, and as a ...

To these people, I say: Read Pastor Martin Niemöller’s poem written during the Holocaust, “First They Came.” We know what has been done so far. What is next?

Views expressed here represent those of the author and not necessarily of ... He is best known for his poem, “First They came.” With thanks to Niemöller, this is my adaptation based on ...

Among the signs they held was one that read, “First, they came for Mahmoud,” a reference to Pastor Martin Niemöller’s famous saying from Nazi Germany that ends, “and I said nothing ...

The obfuscation is the point. There is no more apt time to remind us of the poem, “First They Came,” by Martin Niemöller. Today the administration is going after Venezuelans and Palestinians ...