Now that we've heard their stories, we must take action against genocide
April 4My grandparents are Holocaust survivors. Throughout my mother's childhood, the subject was never mentioned around the house, but as time passed, my grandparents slowly let the topic into the forefront of conversation. Now my grandfather is president emeritus at the Anne Frank Center USA and lectures to kids and adults all over the country about tolerance and his past experiences. During my childhood he shared his knowledge about the Holocaust with anyone who would listen. Except me. I always was sheltered from hearing of these atrocities, even though they were so close to my own life. I had no idea about the stories within my family: I knew little of what was said at the lectures my grandparents gave to communities of every kind, of the love letters they wrote between concentration camps that were later translated and published in the book "Steal a Pencil for Me" (2000) or of the documentary of the same name, released in 2007, about their miraculous love story.
