Millions of people worldwide have viewed "Anne Frank: A History for Today." The exhibit features the Jewish teenager who was given a diary on her 13th birthday. A few weeks later, in July 1942, she, her parents, her sister and others went into hiding from the Nazis in a warehouse annex. They were arrested in August 1944. Anne wrote in her diary while in hiding.

Anne and her sister, Margot, died within days of each other in March 1945 shortly before the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated; their mother, Edith Frank, died in January 1945 at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

After the war, a friend who had retrieved the diary gave it to Anne's father, Otto Frank, who had it published in 1947. It has been translated into more than 60 languages.

This year, Holocaust Remembrance Day was observed April 11. The Anne Frank exhibit opened in Salt Lake City April 13. A guide who took a group through the exhibit noted that he was wearing a lapel pin bearing a word in Hebrew; in English, the word is "Remember."

It is important to remember what has gone before. We celebrate and remember some events because of the joys and triumphs they brought; others we remember to note horrors, disasters and tragedies with the hope that they will happen "never again."

The Lord instructed the children of Israel to teach their children about how they were spared from the plague of death by putting the blood of lambs on their door posts. All who obeyed were spared losing their first-born children. This was to be remembered, for the Lord commanded:

"And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.

"And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.

"And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped" (Exodus 12:24-27).

In the sixth chapter of Deuteronomy, the Israelites were instructed to get the scriptures into their hearts. The men were to wear around their foreheads or arms frontlets, or strips of parchment on which were written four passages of scripture that were rolled up and attached to leather bands. These passages of scripture were placed also on the posts of their houses and on their gates as constant reminders of the Lord's commands to and covenants with the children of Israel.

A caution was given when the children of Israel were delivered to the promised land: "Then beware lest thou forget the Lord, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage" (Deuteronomy 6:12).

The Lord commanded His people to remember also the day they came out of Egypt (Exodus 20:8), all the commandments (Numbers 15:39) and the days they were in bondage in Egypt (Deuteronomy 15:15).

Throughout the scriptures, we read many times of the Lord's instruction to remember.

The Lord instituted the sacrament at what is known as "the Last Supper" by instructing His apostles to partake of the bread and wine in remembrance of Him (Luke 22:19).

Some parents name their children after forebears as a way to remember stalwart ancestors, parents, siblings or other beloved family members.

When Helaman named his sons after his noble ancestors, he said: "Behold, my sons, I desire that ye should remember to keep the commandments of God; and I would that ye should declare unto the people these words. Behold, I have given unto you the names of our first parents who came out of the land of Jerusalem; and this I have done that when you remember your names ye may remember them; and when ye remember them ye may remember their works; and when ye remember their works ye may know how that it is said, and also written, that they were good" (Helaman 5:6).

May we strive always to remember those events and experiences from the past that will help us progress in the future.