Our launch date for Witness For My Father, January 27th, marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This day also honors the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Ten days prior, my dad was forced to evacuate Auschwitz on a death march where 15,000 prisoners of war died in the bitter cold. My father wouldn’t be liberated from the Dachau concentration camp until the end of April.
It’s unimaginable that this era of hatred happened in our lifetime. We must stand together against racism and genocide, so as not to forget, and so that our children and future generations realize how an entire population of Jews and other populations before and after them, were condemned to be murdered.
We are on our way to cast a wider net. Let’s take a moment to remember those who perished, and those who survived. Moving forward, let’s reflect on the power of kindness. We still have lots of work to do.
To life!
Barbara
It wasn’t until I became an adult that I grasped the reality of my father’s history. Even then, it took years to face the unsettling details of his losses. Slowly, I came to understand the nature of extremism, how human beings could be driven by fear and hatred to abandon not just goodness, but their very humanity.
From Witness For My Father