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You Become Our Survivors
“Hearing my story, you young people become, in a way, our survivors. You must never, ever let this memory die – you must keep the torch burning. Because one day my generation will pass. Then, in your lifetime, when you hear someone say that the Holocaust did not happen, you can say: ‘I met a woman who was in Auschwitz and survived Auschwitz. The Holocaust did happen because this person lost her entire family in it – her two sisters, her mother and father. And so did six million other Jews, along with gypsies, the disabled, Christians who tried to save Jews, gays, and many others.’ As a survivor of 70 years, when I see what the world is like today [I fear] we have not learned much from the past. People are suppressing other people. The best way to honor those who perished is to educate the future generations. We must ensure that these atrocities never happen to any other human being.”
Trudy Album, Holocaust survivor from Hungary/Czechoslovakia, accompanied by two students on the March of the Living, where she shared her experiences.