At our luncheon, we asked people to write down how they were connected to the Holocaust. Below are just a few of the many diverse responses we received:
- My husband lost his entire family in the Holocaust. I now help him tell the history of who and how this happened -- to educate the generations.
- I studied the Holocaust with my students. I am drawn, with empathy and compassion, to that time.
- I have several friends whose families were living during the Holocaust. My friend, George, left Czech. in 1939 and is here today.
- I get to work firsthand with the Speakers Bureau at the Holocaust
- I can think of 6 x 10^6 reasons...
- My Aunt Rivka Almeleh Avzavadel, sister of my father, "Pinky" Pirikas Almeleh, was taken by the Nazis from "Rhodos" -- the Island of Rhodes in the Greek Isles, in 1944. I never knew my Aunt.
- Many were left behind. I am grateful to be alive and to tell the story of my brave ancestors. Both of my parents escaped, searately, and came to the US in 1938 from Germany.
- My grandmother's family, from Poland, were killed, as were my grandfather's parents. My husband also lost many family members.
- I am a survivor
- My mother, uncle, and grandmother were members of la Resistance in Paris and rescuers..
- I was a student of the Holocaust, and today I teach my students about this history.
- My father was in the Norwegian Resistance movement working to help Jews across to Sweden when the Nazis took over his country.
- I am a Jew and a human being
- I donated through my youth Mitzfah fund because I felt that they don't teach this in school.
- Those who survived and those who didn't are in my heart
- I teach my MS students about genocide and the Holocaust. Then my students teach the world!
- I lead tours to Rwanda
- Both my parents survived
- I am on the Board of the Center, and work for equality in my workplace for people of all races, gender, religion, and other areas of diversity.
- I was touched by a speaker!
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