Survivors and their families signed a memorial scroll at the Museum during the reunion weekend.
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EMORY:
"I have survived and am here with my children and grandchildren. We will never forget and will pass on this memory so that this horror will never be forgotten."
EMORY:
"Thank you for remembering my family – my aunts and my uncles and my cousins – and my half-brother, killed age 4, whose name my father never spoke."
EMORY:
"I am a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and I am most grateful to this Museum for letting the world know of the darkness that befell the Jews of Europe during World War II. Thank you."
EMORY:
"I come here in memory of my beloved parents … and for the future of my children … May they never forget what happened to their grandparents and the millions of others."
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EMORY:
"For us, every gesture is an offering, every dawn filled with grace. We watch a child, ours, and we see our parents ..."
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BEN MEED
President, American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
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BRAD BLAKEMAN
Deputy Assistant to the President & Director of Presidential Appointments and Scheduling
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ELIE WIESEL
Founding Chair, United States Holocaust Memorial Council
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READ REMARKS AT THE TRIBUTE DINNER
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STUART EIZENSTAT
Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat, author of Imperfect Justice, and Member, United States Holocaust Memorial Council
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READ PRESS COVERAGE OF THE TRIBUTE WEEKEND
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FOR AGING SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST,
THE FUTURE MEANS REMEMBERING THE PAST
by Matthew E. Berger
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3
(JTA)
— Helen Potash stood in front of a cattle car at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum´s permanent exhibition, but she would not venture forward.
"I went through it once," the Holocaust survivor said. "I am not going again."
She went around it instead.
Potash was one of more than 2,200 Holocaust survivors who came to Washington this weekend for a reunion, part of a yearlong marking of the museum´s 10th anniversary.
There have been Holocaust survivor reunions before, but this gathering focused more on the future than the past. The survivors here spoke candidly about their advancing age and said they looked to their heirs to tell their stories.
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