Why would a Holocaust survivor volunteer to spend time recounting her family history to prisoners?
Having been born on a filthy coal truck on the way from a slave labour camp to Mauthausen concentration camp, Eva Clarke and her mother experienced one of the greatest atrocities in documented history. Why would she willingly go into places where people are held in cells, guarded behind barbed wire? Eva gives four motives for her talk. The first is commemoration: to remember all the people who died or were killed, especially all those who never had anyone to remember them, because whole families were killed and communities lost. The second is just to tell one survivors story, because every story is different and they are all unique. The scale of the Holocaust may be incomprehensible, but everybody can identify with one story. The third reason is an attempt to enable us all as a human race to learn the lessons of the Holocaust. Eva believes we are not doing well here, with acts of genocide being committed in various parts of the world. The last reason is to counteract racism. What happe
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