The Last to Know

I watched Sophie’s Choice last night which is based on William Styron's novel about a Polish woman who is forced by the Nazis to choose which of her two children will live, and it dawned on me that our children will be the last generation to hear the holocaust story directly from those who lived it.

Those who were holocaust children from 1939 to 1945 (say about 10 years old) would be in their 70’s or early eighties by now. While there are certainly many great museums, books, documentaries, and tons of material on the holocaust, I don’t think there is anything like hearing the horror directly from those who survived. We should make sure our children have this opportunity before it is too late.

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana