Chapter 12: Then They Came for Me

“Mansour Omari, a Syrian human rights activist who was imprisoned for nine months and tortured by the Assad regime, smuggled out scraps of cloth recording the names of all 82 of his cellmates. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is exhibiting them to raise awareness of atrocities committed by the regime. This is Mansour’s story. [Paragraph] In Chapter 12, Mansour visits the site of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where more than 200,000 people were imprisoned during Nazi rule. Those prisoners included opponents of the regime, homosexuals, Jews, and perhaps most famously Martin Niemöller—the pastor whose postwar quotation about complicity still holds meaning today:[Paragraph]First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to