Genocide is a form of violent social conflict of war, between armed powerful organizations that aim to destroy unarmed civilians, and social groups intent to destroy the existence of that group. Even though the acts do not kill or cause death, they could be causing serious bodily or mental harm.

The most serious act was from the 1940s about Nazi rule in occupied Europe. Nazis murdered between 5 to 6 million Jews become an example case of Genocide. However, that did not only happen in Europe Genocide of Jews also happened in Rwanda. This incident was not too much publicized, and the Rwanda Genocide against Tutsi happened in 1994 during the The Rwandan Civil War only over 100 days, and almost one million Tutsis people were killed.

Now, the famous coffee shop, Starbucks facing boycotts over the Middle East War, and that could happen in business as well.

The United Nations General Assembly designated every year January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Holocaust commemorations are an occasion to remember the six million Jewish victims as well as the non-Jewish victims of Nazi oppression. To mourn one of the darkest chapters in human history.

This year Jan. 27, most all day News and movie media participated in the events. Again I happened to watch the movie called "Sophie's Choice". I sometimes thought Sophie's destiny was not her fault, just circumstances that brought such tragedy in her life. I remember a long time ago reading that book after the first time watching the movie.
The book was written by author William Styron who wrote this book in 1979, because to write this book took him 5 years.
We could say that this book was his writing as well as his relationship with the main characters in the book.
He just arrived in New York to become a writer, so, he chose to rent a boarding house in Brooklyn where the rent was cheaper.

At that boarding house, he met Sophie and her partner Nathan. Through friendship, he finds out Sophie is the Survivor of Nazi concentration camps who have found a reason to live with Nathan who is an American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.
In the movie, Sophie arrives by train at Auschwitz with her two young children, one daughter Sophie holding in her arm the other boy holding his mother's hand waiting for the Nazi officer to get an interview. Even though she is Polish, yet, the officer forces her to choose only one life for her children so that she only keeps one child, and the other will face death.
What can we do? yet, she chose her son, since he is older, and if they sent him children's camp, someday she could meet him.

After the war, without meeting her son, she arrives in New York with extreme weakness from undernourishment, yet, tries to learn in English, she attended school, and from there she collapsed in the lobby where Nathan rescued her, and looked after her.
Nathan who is a brilliant but unstable Jew falls in love with her passionately.
As trying to be a writer, he becomes involved as good friends with them. And watching their turbulent love-hate affair the end he involved with Sophie who tells him her secret which is how she has to choose the children's life or death that gives her torment.
In the end, Sophie and Nathan commit suicide.

The movie was sad, yet, beautifully made and the actress Meryl Streep acted brilliantly, from that movie she won the Oscar.
First, she happened to buy that book, and after reading the book, she wanted to make the movie and gave it to the producer to make the movie. After all those years as being actress, performing a lot of acts, yet, still in that movie as Sophie, she thinks she acted most brilliantly as a regular human being.

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