There were as many Slavs killed in the Holocaust as Jews.
Here is a relative of mine who died in Mauthausen. That's just one, on my dad's side(the semi-non-slavic side). My mother's side had more. I'm over it. You don't see me getting angry at modern Germans --and I've yet to see a paycheck!
This reads like you would like some kind of recognition for being as "over it" as you are. But notice how you are mentioning in a very nondescript way who has died ('a relative' from somewhere in your family). Might I suggest that the less you engage yourself in the historical reality of what has happened to your people, the less you feel connected to them, and subsequently, the less you care about them. Because that's what "over it" reads like to me, in the context of discussions like this. Not "I'm learning to work through the negative emotions regarding X", but "Why do other people still think about X? I don't. What a bunch of babies. Get over it!"
This year is the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Turks and some of their Kurdish allies. From 1915 to 1918, the Turks killed an estimated 1.2 to 1.5 million Armenians. Armenia lost all of its historical lands in what is now Turkey (a huge, huge swath of the country; as a measure, Sevan Nisanyan, the lexicographer behind
Index Anatolicus which charts the history of topographical names in Turkey, suggests that in excess of 3,600 Armenian place names have been Turkified since the early Republican period), ethnic Armenians who were not killed outright were scattered throughout the world, Armenian children who were orphaned by the genocide were put into Turkish families to be raised as Turkish Muslims (just as the Ottomans had done under the
devshirme system in the Balkans with Slavic children), etc.
Plenty of people (mostly Turks and their Azeri and US allies) would probably like the Armenians to "get over it". Would you agree with them? Do you think it's really healthy to act in a detached manner to something that very nearly brought about the end of your people? Particularly when the effects of the past continue on to today? (In the Turkish case, the perpetrators are still denying what they did, so there's no use of even talking about an apology much less any checks...I highly doubt most Armenians are looking for monetary gain.)
I don't see a huge difference between what the Turks did to the Armenians (and Syriacs and Greeks, in separate but related incidences) and what the Europeans did to the Natives in the Americas. Greed for land and resources, assumed cultural/religious superiority, a sense of nascent 'national' exceptionalism surrounding their country or the glories of their empire (remember, the USA started out as a collection of British colonies) were behind all of these sad events. I would never tell an Armenian or a Syriac person (the true natives of what is now Turkey; the Turkification of the Anatolian plateau did not begin until relatively recently, in about the 11th century) to "get over" what has happened to them. They've lost their lands, their churches, their languages, their communities, and ultimately their futures in the lands they inhabited since time immemorial. If any group, be they Native American or any other, is fighting for their own future, how on earth can anyone not of that group tell them to stop doing that?
If tomorrow being a standard n-th generation American were made illegal by a foreign and illegitimate power's decree, probably very few of those people would "get over it". And if time had passed but the collective memory of what life had been like prior to the occupation wasn't kept alive by those Americans, who could claim it as a success? Certainly the foreign power, but whatever remained of the Americans probably wouldn't agree, assuming they had some way of learning their history.
