Welcome, King of Changetown! Population: You.

This image came up on Facebook, but it hasn't been easy to find the original source. Thanks to our best friend Google, about 707,000,000 results popped up in 0.19 seconds (impressive) but I still haven't found the original link - please bare with me.

These days it's hard to commit to stuff. Pro-activity can be a chore and on some days I can't say I'd be an advocate of committing to anything more than to the bottom of a Vaseline tin. However, this image boiled away at my brain...

I want to be productive and pro-active but it's hard to materialize the confidence to say that you're THAT shiny orb of sunshine and lead a new initiative that promotes change. It's not just standing in the firing line, but it's also a huge responsibility to guard the facts and to be right. I suppose most people pretend that they're right, so much so that it is no longer a pretense. Again, I admit I'm getting onto a subject that I don't really know much about so that is where I'll stop.

I want everyone to be bothered by learning about the Holocaust. Does that make sense? I feel so strongly that people need to know about it, that it hurts. Even in the face of something so awful, one has to choose to learn about it, in order to learn from it. However as Ruth Rogoff asserts, and publicly shares her experience on the  The Children of the Holocaust (still on BBC iPlayer if you're reading this before 14/02/15), although it's important to learn about history and believe that genocide will never happen again, the fact is; as parents and human beings, we do make the same mistakes that we promised ourselves we'd never do again. It's the 'frailty of the human being' to repeat mistakes. Ruth also says that children and young people are more tolerant and that 'it's getting better'.

I am unsure what to think. Who is going to take the responsibility to inform people? The Children of the Holocaust was a stunning and thought-provoking programme with artistic visions aimed for young people. Those 45 minutes document themes like Kindertransport and experiences in a concentration camp with accessible language, images and testimonies - I hope that everyone gets the chance to see it while they can.

But in 100 years, who is going to provide testimonies? Of course, these are all questions that have been asked before and there is a lot of literature that can testify too. There seems to be so much genocide in the newspapers and media every day. Have we really learned anything at all?

Asking questions and trying to form a coherent answer isn't enough. There's hope in that there are opportunities of future workshops for schools being developed that teaches empathy to young people.

But does too much empathy mystify the past? The door needs to be opened for future generations of young people to develop their own humanity without mystifying the past events. After all, we are put on earth to be human....