Jan. 27 was Holocaust Remembrance Day. I would like to thank Kris Holloway and John Bidwell for their guest column in Tuesday’s Gazette “Holocaust Remembrance Day: ‘Never a bystander,’”bringing attention to this day and underlining the importance of bystander actions. My grandfather, Christiaan de Jong, grew up in Leiden, the Netherlands, and became a teacher and the vice principal of his town’s high school. He, my grandmother, and their three teenage children (one being my mother) looked on in horror as the Nazis overran their country. Many in the Netherlands were complicit with Nazi rule, but there were also many...