Dear Editor: After reading Dennis Sadowski’s “B’klyn Pilgrims Learn History at Auschwitz” (July 30), I was left with chills, but hope for our future. The photograph of the young pilgrims also spoke volumes.

This is the kind of education and engagement which our young truly need. I am so hopeful, proud and confident that World Youth Day attendees, and perhaps our Catholic schools, will generate the thinkers and leaders, the movers and shakers, that our world so very much needs.

To witness and pray over such human atrocity and injustice, as well as to reflect, plan, decide and act to prevent its reoccurrence, will be the impact that this pilgrimage has on our future leaders. These youth will share the story at home, in schools, with friends and neighbors and on social media. They no doubt will be mindful of atrocities and injustices that are already happening, and lead the way toward a brighter, better future with more loving, faithful, and hopeful decisions and actions.

Our world will be a better place. Keep it up WYD.

ANONYMOUS

Brooklyn