Editor,

RE: "Why it is important to keep talking about the Genocide” (The New Times, July 12).

A wonderful comment which many amongst us will keep close to heart!

Thank you Eli for those words, which you make real by relating it to your own family history and that of a young ghetto and Auschwitz survivor who grew up into a police captain, Michael Goldman, who then had the opportunity to prosecute one of the worst monsters of the Shoah, Adolf Eichmann.

Only those to whom so much evil has been inflicted—and over a much longer period than Rwandans have—can truly understand and counsel those who have endured comparable horrors; for your advice is shaped by deeply lived experiences whose marks will never leave you, even to many generations to come.

Mwene Kalinda