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Simon Wiesenthal

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

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Simon Wiesenthal is saying that schools fail by not addressing important issues, the Church fails by forgiving without confronting wrongdoing, and parents fail by refusing to talk openly with their children. Because of this, young people miss crucial truths that older people avoid sharing, leaving the next generation uninformed.

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