January 27 Holocaust Remembrance Day

Ed Mosberg stands in his New York home remembering, remembering, remembering - but with a purpose and a "higher cause."

By Carolyn Yeager

WITH THE ALREADY-BOREDOM-INSPIRING JANUARY 27TH "HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY" COMING UP, all networks and news outlets are obligingly scrounging up a tired old survivor story or two in which they can mention it.

This day, created by the United Nations on a voice vote in 2005 (on a day when Israel was presiding over the assembly) was immediately put to use as one of the major engines keeping "holocaust' in the public conciousness masquerading as "our common history."