When she was 18, she was, as she put it, “ripped off the school bench to be deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau,” one of an estimated 437,000 Hungarian Jews rounded up outside Budapest and dispatched to death camps in just 57 days in 1944.
“I knew,” she smiled, “that the capitalist world cannot survive, that my father was an exploiter and the only theology that can make people happy is Marxism. All this, with my bourgeois background!”
“One of the biggest lies is that time could help,” she said. “Time does not help. It only deepens the feeling that something is missing. One simply learns to live with such trauma. And if you don’t get to the point where you can forgive them, then I think you can’t go on living.”
“I knew,” she smiled, “that the capitalist world cannot survive, that my father was an exploiter and the only theology that can make people happy is Marxism. All this, with my bourgeois background!”
These survivors always seem so wise and hardened. I can't imagine having to live in the world again after what they had been through. I have so much respect for them.
I have a Holocaust survivor speaker coming to my school on Wednesday and I'm really looking forward to it despite how sad its going to be.
Wow you definitely should make a blog about it later. Take notes of what they're going to say and share with us later. I wish I had the opportunity to speak with a gay survivor.
Wow you definitely should make a blog about it later. Take notes of what they're going to say and share with us later. I wish I had the opportunity to speak with a gay survivor.
I will. Others are jealous though because its only 20th Century Topics sudents. Earlier in the month I got to meet former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Such a honor for both events.
I wish I had the opportunity to speak with a gay survivor.