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"I don't want people to forget, and there are not many people who can do it because I can do it," she said.
At almost 85, Friedman said the remembering doesn't hurt. Instead, it's helped to heal her and remind everyone.
"Hitler didn't win. I have a family. Everything he didn't want me to have, I have," she said."
Never forget!
Especially since Antisemitism is strongly rearing it's head again
From the Jewish perspective, a very common thread culturally is that the best revenge is a life well lived. Mir veln zey iberlebn - we will outlive them.
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Originally Posted by MJJersey
She was 4? I saw in a documentary that the Nazi’s took the kids and old people and killed them right away when they got to the camp.
Well you saw *a* documentary, so that's that, I suppose.
6 million out of Europe's 9.5 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Every one has a different story, and Nazi oppression and violence differed from place to place. For instance, in Slavic countries there were less concentration camps so the Holocaust was a story of being shot after digging your own mass grave. In other parts of Europe, there were ghettos and concentration camps. There are stories of people being saved from immediate death because parents lied about their age, hid them somewhere, or because they looked like a prison guard's mother.
There were many Jewish toddlers and young children who survived the Holocaust. Many, many more didn't.
My neighbor across the street had two parents that were survivors. They were both children at the time. His dad would not talk at all about what happened. His mom told us her story and it was not pleasant at all.
Apparently, the Nazis took groups of them out to the middle of nowhere in cattle car type rail cars. They then made them dig a ditch and climb down into it and opened fire. The only reason she survived was because her dad realized at the last second what was about to happen and pushed he behind him. He was killed and at 7 years old, she lay there in the ditch for 3 days with his body on top of her because she was afraid to come out thinking the Nazis were still there.
After 3 days, hunger drove her out and into the woods where a family found her a few days later and took her in. For years she has been traveling the world telling her story to Jewish groups that want to hear it so people never forget.
You never forget hearing a story like that. Her husband died of dementia in 2016 and I think that might have been a blessing (dying) because who knows what he was remembering during that illness.
National Socialists (Germany) killed 6 million Jews, yet tens of millions of non Jewish people died during the same conflict.
Socialists will kill everybody, regardless of race or region. It's what they do. History tells us this.
Yet, the overwhelmingly majority of "tens of millions of non Jewish people died during the same conflict." were not systematically rounded up and murdered by the nazis
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