I guess I don’t understand what happened in the Holocaust. I don’t understand how people could either survive the way so many did, through the hell of those times, or how folks on the other side could get on with their ‘everyday’ lives while knowing about the horrors, or even working in the camps. (Though I do understand how the Germans felt who didn’t necessarily know or realize the horrors or details of the concentration camps, because my government also keeps me in the dark about the atrocities for which we are responsible.)
I just heard on NPR the story of a woman who was in Auschwitz. She talked in a way that only survivors of the Holocaust can speak. I have only met three survivors personally, but they all shared a kindness that I can’t quite describe, but that you probably understand if you, too, have met a survivor.
I will tell the positive message she gave in her story to me, and the message I was given by another Holocaust survivor — a woman in Nahariya, Israel, about 6 years ago My telling these stories is meant to be a testament to the courage of the survivors and of those who died in the camps, so I hope you are able to read it as such:
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