beastmaster11 t1_jbpvwe9 wrote
Reply to comment by ToxicBanana69 in New York landlord becomes legal guardian of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor: 'She had no one else' by Imguran
The last nazi death camp was liberated when she was 15. So not like she was an infant that didn't remember the horrors.
But in all honesty before I did the math I though she would be older. To me, all senior citizens were alive at the time but I am realizing that we will soon be in a situation where nobody that was a victim of these horrors will be around to tell us about them making it easier to downplay
Curiosities t1_jbqhtfu wrote
My boyfriend's grandfather died back in early 2020 at around 100. He was a camp survivor and lost much of his family there. We met briefly, before he retired and moved, but it really does drive home how things are still within living history. At some point, his grandfather recorded his story for the Shoah Foundation.
With all of the antivax stuff in the news, it made me think of my teacher disabled by polio, and out of sight, out of mind, because no one under 40, basically, remembers what that looked like. So they are more susceptible to anti-science.
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