Auschwitz survivor: 'It's vital for our future to know our past'
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One of the participants on the March of the Living on Holocaust Memorial Day on Thursday was Nate Leipciger, a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau, who currently lives in Canada. Leipciger, who participated in the March of the Living for the 19th time, agreed to talk to Arutz Sheva about his thoughts about the march and his experiences during the Holocaust.
Many survivors prefer not to come back to Europe and the death camps. What's it like for you to come back again and again?
I'm coming here because I want to be with our young people. I have a message and we have to introduce them to what happened here. But more importantly, we have to show them what life was like here before the Holocaust.
So it's not only about the atrocities - it's also about Judaism?
It's not only about the atrocities. The atrocities are an essential part of it but the most important aspect of this trip or equally important is who the victims were. It's not enough to say there were six million Jews. There were six million individuals who had different lives. Each life was a world in itself and they were extinguished. We have to know what those people accomplished here for the thousands of years that they were here.
So you're here with the youth. What are their first reactions? Are some of them surprised that it all happened?
We prepare them very well before we come here about what they're going to see but nobody can prepare you for what you see when you get here, especially when you go into Birkenau. It's a life-changing educational trip. They will never forget what they saw here or what they heard here and it's important for our future to know our past. READ MORE
Auschwitz survivor: 'It's vital for our future to know our past'
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