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I am a 65 year old Jew and I went through the front gate of Auschwitz on a hot sunny cloudless day in May. Above the gate, “Arbeit Macht Frei” still proclaimed its sarcastic lie to all those passing through, some actually believing.
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Death and Life – A Polish Journey |
Like so many children of Holocaust survivors, my parents rarely spoke about the fate of their relatives who were killed.
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To Hell and Back - For my Grandparents |
A very personal pilgrimage I’ve made
This sunny, warm spring day,
To the greatest living hell,
The biggest camp of death
This Earth has ever known.
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Tuesday, the third of May nineteen thirty-nine |
How did my father take me
to the customs quay
close to the ferry point
that chilly morning?
No memory of getting there.
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It was early spring when the letter arrived from the Czech Republic.
Intrigued, I opened it.
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Sir Nicholas Winton's Centenary |
Known as the “British Schindler”,
Sir Nicholas Winton rescued nearly 700
children from the Nazi horrors of WWII.
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The Jewish Museum in Copenhagen |
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We knew little
more than the story of how the Danes saved the Danish Jews during the
war - but the story turned out to be more complex than that.
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In 2010 my wife and I visited China touring various cities and
historical and archaeological sites. We ended our visit in Shanghai where we met up with a cousin who
took us to the former Jewish neighbourhood of the city.
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