Sixty years after the Holocaust's end, a new whirlwind is emerging.

The Center’s Intelligence Project has exposed an extensive network of rabidly anti-Semitic "churches." Called "radical traditionalist Catholicism," this movement is anything but Catholic; it is instead a perversion of that faith.

In a recent speech, movement leader Brother Anthony Mary declared that "the perpetual enemy of Christ is the Jewish nation" and went on to say Jews aim to "destroy all Christian nations." He concluded with a chilling statement — "Jews are the synagogue of Satan," a phrase that is also part of the official ideology of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations.

Brother Anthony Mary's movement is perhaps the largest anti-Semitic force in the United States today, with at least 100,000 followers and tens of millions of dollars in assets.

Yom HaShoah reminds us of our obligation to combat this growing firestorm of anti-Semitism and bigotry.

This month, the Center's Teaching Tolerance program is asking 50,000 educators to use its free Holocaust education kit, One Survivor Remembers, in their classrooms. Based on the life of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein, One Survivor Remembers includes an Academy Award®-winning film, artifacts drawn from Gerda's personal collection and an array of lesson plans.

Wrenched from her home in Bielitz (Bielsko), Poland, at age 15, Gerda was sent to a Nazi labor camp and later forced to march from Germany to Czechoslovakia. Less than 200 women of the thousands who began that gruesome journey lived to see their rescuers — the 5th American Infantry Division.

By the end of the war, Gerda had lost her parents, brother, home, possessions, and community; even the dear friends she made in the labor camps and along the march, with whom she had shared so many hardships, were dead. The Nazis had taken all but her life.

And yet, on the day of her liberation, as Gerda stared into the eyes of her rescuer — the man she would later marry — she uttered not words of rage or resentment, but verse from the poet Goethe, "Noble be man, merciful and good."

As flames of anti-Semitism ignite again, the humble words Gerda spoke decades ago remind us that we must be steadfast in our efforts to nurture respect for differences over hatred of them. This is but one of the many reasons I have made a provision for the Center in my estate plans. As a Partner for the Future, I help ensure that this noble struggle will continue for as long as it takes, even after I am gone.