As Jeff Jacoby’s “The end of Holocaust remembrance’’ suggests, the world is not only forgetting the Holocaust, but for a long time it has not known how to remember it in a way that would pay true tribute to the victims: by preventing similar atrocities from happening.

The Genocide Convention’s promise to prevent genocide from occurring again was hollow. The United States refused to act in Rwanda, looking for loopholes by not calling the mass killings genocide, and our country stood by during other genocides. The Rwandan genocide occurred just one year after the US Holocaust Memorial Museum opened.

I fear our society’s apathy will only worsen, as we live in an age of slacktivism, when there is an “awareness’’ day/month/ribbon/social media campaign for everything. This allows people to feel good about themselves for knowing about the problem without, for the most part, actually doing anything about it.

We can remember the Holocaust all we want, but unless we actively work to stop similar horrors and poisonous hatred, and encourage the same from our leaders, we might as well have already forgotten.

Debra Greene

Quincy