"The Immortal Jew"

I hope all my readers are aware of the commemorative holiday approaching. "Yom Hashoa" or "Day of Mourning" (I think).
Im sure we all know what the Holocaust was. It was an attempt to destroy the Jewish population. Im not going to get into to much detail about it because every Jew should already know and never forget.
But why would we want to remember 6,000,000 Jews dieing? (some of which is my close family, my grandparents were both survivors and lost their whole families). We don't, we want to commemorate our existance and the fact that we survived and still thrive in all countries every day.
Mark Twain a.k.a. Samuel Clemens was one of Americas greatest author's and a big part of American literature. He was not Jewish but very smart. The Jewish peoples survival was noticed by him and he wrote the following.

"The Egyptians, the Babylonians, and the Persians rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream stuff and passed away; the Greeks and the Romans followed and made a vast noise, and they were gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now or have vanished.
The Jew saw them all, survived them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind, all things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?"
- Mark Twain.