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Continued from Front candles were lit, with survi- realize what was going on.
They worry that today's vors joining hands, dancing When the Nazis came, he
youth in many countries in circles and laughing. recalled his grandfather
don't recognize names of "For me, the holiday of Ha- telling him that they were
Nazi death camps, fall prey nukkah is a holiday of vic- "a civilized nation, they
to anti-Semitic conspiracy tory, and it's very important wouldn't do anything to us."
theories, or don't realize for me to see the light of But he and his family were
that 6 million Jews were victory," said Amnon Elkiev, taken to a ghetto on
killed in Hitler's World War II a survivor originally from the Ukraine's western edge
extermination campaign. Netherlands who came to and held there from 1941
Lighting the Hanukkah can- the ceremony with his wife. until the Red Army liberat-
delabra, France's chief rab- Renowned Nazi hunter ed it in 1944.
bi, Haim Korsia, told survi- Serge Klarsfeld was among "We were all sleeping on
vors in Paris, "What you are, those attending a bitter- the floor. We lived on the
each of you, is exactly like sweet ceremony in Paris, territory (of the ghetto),
the light. ... We will never put where young and old sang isolated from the city by
out the first flame. When we and prayed together. barbed wire. The entrance
transmit the knowledge, Anna Sterman described was guarded by Nazi sol-
your experience and when being "hunted ... like mice" diers and policemen," he
we transmit it to others, it as a child near Lyon. Sarah said. "People who dared
takes nothing from us and it Saragoussi, whose parents (to leave) were indeed
gives to others." were deported to camps, shot."
With folk dancing, festive said: "We thought they Bearing witness is ever
songs and shared meals, would come back none- more important as survivors
the ceremonies Sunday theless. We didn't think die out. French survivor Su-
and Monday also aimed they were leaving to their zanne Bakon said, "We are
to combat the solitude and deaths." doing everything while we
other difficulties many survi- The gathering in New York are living so that (the mem- A menorah is seen during an event named 'Survivors Night' in
vors face in old age. included some 200 survi- ory) remains."q Paris, Monday, Dec. 23, 2019.
Some 400,000 Holocaust vors, some wearing winter Associated Press
victims are estimated to still caps, others wearing kip-
be alive, about half of them pas. Some smiled as they
in Israel — and as many as listened to speeches; others
40% are living in poverty, looked on pensively. They
said Ruediger Mahlo of the touched on recent anti-Se-
Conference on Jewish Ma- mitic attacks in the U.S. and
terial Claims Against Ger- on concerns that younger
many, which organized the generations of Americans
events. know little about what they
"We want to make this pub- went through.
lic in order to help them and Hand-in-hand with a rabbi,
in order that other people survivor Mikhail Spektr said
help them as well," he told a prayer and lit a Hanukkah
The Associated Press. candelabra in Moscow. He
With tears in their eyes, then took the microphone
survivors sang Israel's na- and sang for members of
tional anthem together at Russia's Jewish community,
the Western Wall, the holi- accompanied by a fiddler
est site in the world where and accordion player.
Jews can pray. The mood As a child when the war be-
turned joyous by the time gan, Spektr said, he didn't