While it is true that our people have been the victims of countless horrific persecutions and mass murders throughout the centuries, the Holocaust is not merely the most recent, but was clearly quantitatively (and probably qualitatively as well) the worst of them all.
To me, aside from the fact that the deep wounds of the Holocaust are still far to fresh to “put behind us”, there is a much more serious reason to NOT just relegate the Holocaust to the shelves of anti-Semitic history.
Simply put, there are still those who would, if they could, who WILL, if they CAN, implement a new Holocaust even more devasting than the last one.
If we let ourselves, or others, forget that, it will bring it one step closer to reality.