​​To the families of the innocent people who lost their lives due to an unspeakable wrong in Parkland, Florida.
 
As a survivor of the invasion by Nazi forces, of my home country Greece in 1941, I grieve with you for your loss. I lost family too, in 1943, when they were captured and sent to concentration camps where they were killed. Perhaps we share an inability to comprehend what has occurred; there is confusion and no place to stand.
 
We are from different communities and different times and perhaps we can align with others like us who care, and through unity and effective actions, we can bring the day closer that these senseless deaths will be no more. 
 
With my condolences,
Andreas Algava

Yom Hazikaron laShoah ve-laG'vurah or ”Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day"), known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is observed as Israel's day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, and for the Jewish resistance in that period.

Learn more on these sites:

• Wikipedia
• The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Holocaust Memorial Day Trust