Here is the sad truth.
many years have passed since the Holocuast and each year there are fewer and fewer survivors to testify to the horrors.
And as their voices go silent... Hate groups see an opportunity...less opposed with each passing year.
Holocaust survivors hope their stories outlive them
www.rockymountainnews.com...
Within a decade or so, Holocaust experts predict there will be few living witnesses to the worst genocide in modern history.
"Twenty years from now it will be a stronger movement to deny the Holocaust ever occurred," said Miriam Hoffman, whose family assumed Christian
identities in Greece to avoid the death camps.
"This is what is scary about it. We are the last witnesses of the horror."
Fred Hoffman is a 78-year-old retired tailor who survived Auschwitz and other Nazi camps. Every time he hears someone question whether the Holocaust
really happened, he said "it feels like you take a knife and put it in my heart."
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........When Sayone and his family arrived at Auschwitz, the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele sent him to a line that had formed to the right. His family
was assigned to a line at the left. Everyone in that line went to the gas chambers.
During those last moments, his father told the family to try to stay alive to serve as witnesses. That's what kept Sayone going.
"I had to keep telling myself, I got to survive and I got to tell the world what one human being can do to another."
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At her home, she opened a photo album stuffed with documents and images.
"This one killed me," she said, pointing to paperwork given to her by a survivor in Lubbock, Texas.
The woman was a young girl when the Nazis stormed a family birthday celebration at their home in Bulgaria and took more than 100 relatives to the
death camps. She was the sole survivor.
At the camp, "She saw her mother on top of a pile," Binstock said. "That one, I cried."
Then there's the quirkier details.
"Do you know there's different color lice?" she was asked by one survivor, from Lubbock, who spent five years of her childhood in Dachau.
"We used to take them off our bodies and race them by color," the woman told her.
Binstock is amazed by the fortitude of those who made it out of the camps - especially the children.
"That's one of the things that's so precious to me - how they were able to survive," she said.
"When I think of Eric Cahn (a hidden child who still lives in the Denver area) for two years being in a basement and not making a sound, not having a
mommy or anyone to hold him, I think of my children and grandchildren and what it would have been like for them," she said.
[edit on 23-6-2009 by maybereal11]
[edit on 23-6-2009 by maybereal11]