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In reply to the discussion: International Holocaust Remembrance Day:Have you ever been to a Concentration Camp or met a survivor [View all]mnhtnbb
(31,410 posts)11. My first trip to Europe in 1983
my boyfriend (Jewish) and I went to Dachau. It was an incredibly difficult experience to take in the horror of what happened there and to know it was only one of many camps.
I lived in Los Angeles for 20 some years and met several people during that time who were Holocaust survivors.
Right now I happen to be reading the Jenna Blum novel, Those Who Save Us. It's about a German woman and her daughter who come to Minnesota after WW II.
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day:Have you ever been to a Concentration Camp or met a survivor [View all]
Behind the Aegis
Jan 2019
OP
Met survivors, never been to mainland Europe, but took the kids to the Holocaust Museum in DC
Maeve
Jan 2019
#14
I would like to go to visit a concentration camp. I still can't wrap my mind around what the
UniteFightBack
Jan 2019
#16
My husband's parents were Holocaust survivors. One of his elderly cousins leads tours of Auschwitz
Hekate
Jan 2019
#21
I have not been to a concentration camp, but I have been to many Jewish graveyards,, memorials and
smirkymonkey
Jan 2019
#23
As a surg.tech. student (70's), I worked with two surgeons, both had arm tattoos.
Greybnk48
Jan 2019
#34