Thorlifter
Captain
I purchased this book a couple days ago from a used book store for the price of $1 and just can't put it down. This is the story of Tova Friedman born in Poland in 1938. She has spent much of her life touring and talking about her experiences. I include this partial quote from her prolog as it's very powerful.
"No matter how much the last few remaining survivors and I share our stories, it seems that people are forgetting. Personally, I was horrified to learn about the levels of ignorance revealed in a survey of young Americans that was commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and published in September 2020.
Two-Thirds of the people who were interviewed had no idea how many Jews died in the Holocaust. Almost half couldn't name a single concentration camp or ghetto. Twenty three percent believed the Holocaust was a myth or had been exaggerated. 17 percent said it was acceptable to hold neo-Nazi views. A similar survey in Europe in 2018 showed that a third of all Europeans knew just a little or hadn't heard of the Holocaust."
"No matter how much the last few remaining survivors and I share our stories, it seems that people are forgetting. Personally, I was horrified to learn about the levels of ignorance revealed in a survey of young Americans that was commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and published in September 2020.
Two-Thirds of the people who were interviewed had no idea how many Jews died in the Holocaust. Almost half couldn't name a single concentration camp or ghetto. Twenty three percent believed the Holocaust was a myth or had been exaggerated. 17 percent said it was acceptable to hold neo-Nazi views. A similar survey in Europe in 2018 showed that a third of all Europeans knew just a little or hadn't heard of the Holocaust."
