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International Holocaust Remembrance Day: We Must Never Forget

Admin October 21, 2024

“Before I met Renee (Firestone) I thought heroes were Batman and Spiderman but now I know what a real hero is.”
Alana K., 5th grader on meeting and hearing a survivor lecture at the Museum of Tolerance
“It is important to speak at the Museum of Tolerance because I want the world to know that it should never happen again.”
MATHILDA PARDO
Holocaust experience: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen

“I have a great deal of satisfaction being at the Museum of Tolerance and knowing that I am of help.”
EDZIA GOLDSTEIN
Holocaust experience: Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruk concentration camp, Muhlhausen labor camp, Bergen-Belsen

“The young people who come to our museum daily encourage me to tell my story of survival.”
JACK LEWIN
Holocaust experience: Lodz ghetto, Trzebinia, Auschwitz-Birkenau
For close to 40 years, Holocaust survivors have shared their experiences at the Simon Wiesenthal Center and since 1993 at the Museum of Tolerance. Every day survi vors speak to visitors includingstudents, groups, educators, law enforcement, and to people around the world via videoconference.
Each story is unique – from surviving Auschwitz, the death marches, and medical experiments, to being hidden by righteous gentiles, fighting alongside the partisans and beingtaken out of Europe as part of the Kindertransport.

Sadly, as the number of Holocaust survivors dwindle, there has never been a more urgent time to learn the lessons of the past.

As Simon Wiesenthal said, "When my life is over, I shall meet up with those who perished, and they will ask me, 'What have you done?' At thatmoment, I will have the honor of telling them; I have never forgotten you."

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