Ways of Seeing: Learning from Holocaust survivors

Ways of Seeing: Learning from Holocaust survivors

MICHELE LOWY Life is challenging right now. And I don’t mean just the price of eggs. Every day the news is filled with stories we never thought could happen outside a history book or a dystopian novel. We veer between anger and depression, between wanting to protest and wanting to hide in bed. I take heart when I think about Regina and Adek and their friends. Eve and I met when we were fourteen years old, fifty-five years ago. We’ve shared weddi…

As children, they survived ghettos, camps and Nazi persecution. 80 years after the end of World War II, Holocaust survivors in Odessa report how the Russian war of aggression brings back their worst memories – and what they hope for from Germany.