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The article focuses on issues related to a proposed bill in Israel that would ban the word Nazi and the use of Holocaust-related symbols in a noneducational way. It discusses the significance of the bill to Israel including the country's insistence on being both a democratic nation and a Jewish state. It examines the implications of the proposed bill on freedom of speech in Israel.

The article focuses on the popularity of Holocaust tattoos among young Israelis as a way of memorializing their families' suffering. The number of living Holocaust survivors declined to about 200,000 as of 2012, which makes Israel grapple with how to remember the Holocaust after those who lived it are gone. Henry Greenspan, who teaches the Holocaust at the University of Michigan, said that majority of Holocaust victims were never tattooed as they were murdered outright.