Eighty years is all it took.
Eighty years from the liberation of Auschwitz to a twelve year old Jewish girl in America hiding her Star of David necklace before homeroom.
Eighty years from “Never Again” to 9,354 antisemitic incidents in the United States in a single year, the highest total in forty six years of tracking.
Eighty years from the Holocaust to the moment when nearly half of American adults cannot name a single concentration camp, and one in four Americans polled now calls violent attacks on Jews “understandable.”
It’s happening again.
Not in the same costumes. Not in the same countries. But in the same pattern, with the same playbook, documented in the same data, and directed at the same people.
In It’s Happening Again, Rebekah Ricks, a Baptist-raised mother of two from Winter Haven, Florida, writes the book she wishes she could have handed herself five years ago. A book not for academics or activists, but for parents at kitchen tables. A book that names antisemitism on the hard right AND the hard left in equal weight, that walks honestly through the algorithm and the classroom and the pew, that compresses three thousand years of history into what a busy mother can actually teach her children, and that closes with the only thing that has ever stopped the oldest hatred from winning: parents who refuse to hand it to the next generation.
Inside this book you will find:
The full data on rising antisemitism in 2024 and 2025, from ADL, Claims Conference, USHMM, and Yad VashemThe coded language your teenager is already seeing on TikTok, and what every symbol actually meansThe specific ideological movements on the right and the left that are radicalizing American children through their phonesAn honest chapter on Christian complicity, replacement theology, and the silence of too many American pulpitsScripts for talking with children at every age, from five to eighteenAppendices with school advocacy tools, federal civil rights complaint templates, a family media covenant, and twenty eight common antisemitic tropes with honest one-line responses parents can use at ThanksgivingFor the Christian parent who loves Israel but has never learned the Holocaust in detail.
For the Jewish parent who wants to know they are not fighting alone.
For the homeschool mother, the public school mother, the grandmother, the aunt, the teacher, and every adult who refuses to watch the oldest hatred come back without saying something.
The witnesses are dying. Within a decade, the last eyewitnesses to the Holocaust will be gone. What stands between a generation of American children and the forgetting is not the schools, not the government, not the pulpit.
It is you.
Tell your children.
